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"LUNATICS" is a plural of: lunatic. |
Date "LUNATICS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Lunatics Moon-struck persons. The Romans believed that the mind was affected by the moon, and that "lunatics" were more and more frenzied as the moon increased to its full. (See Avertin .) "The various mental derangements ... which have been attributed to the influence of the moon, have given to this day the name lunatics to persons suffering from serious mental disorders."- Crazier. Popular Errors. chap iv. p. 53. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A lunatic (colloquially, "loony") is a pejorative term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable. The word gains its stem from the latin for moon ('luna') which denotes the traditional link made in folklore between madness and the phases of the moon. This probably refers to the symptoms of cyclic mood disorders such as Bipolar disorder or cyclothymia, the symptoms of which may also go through phases. However, there is little evidence for any causal link between phases of the moon and the progression of mood disorder symptoms.See also: Official Monster Raving Loony Party, Bedlam
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Crosswords: LUNATICS |
| Specialty definitions using "LUNATICS": Ethnology ♦ Head Shaved ♦ Misnomers ♦ STRAIT WAISTCOAT. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur (Clue; writing credit: Jonathan Lynn.) | |
Lyrics | Lunatics y'all, uh, uh (E.I.; performing artist: Nelly) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Two Lunatics (1913) Igor and the Lunatics (1985) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Convicts lunatics and women! Have no vote for parliament She: Is it time I got out of this place - Where shall I find the KEY? / / Emily J. Harding Andrews. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And so lunatics and idiots are never set free from the government of their parents; children, who are not as yet come unto those years whereat they may have; and innocents which are excluded by a natural defect from ever having; thirdly, madmen, which for the present cannot possibly have the use of right reason to guide themselves, have for their guide, the reason that guideth other men which are tutors over them, to seek and procure their good for them, says Hooker, Eccl. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The lunatics will have it all their own way, outside |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. |
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| "LUNATICS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LUNATICS" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 97 | 33,269 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "LUNATICS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Italian | pazza (foolish woman, lunatic, madwoman). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | δΉ±εΏθ . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | γγ"γγ"γγ. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unaticslay.(various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"LUNATICS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lomatils, lunachicks, lunitic, Lutatius. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LUNATICS" (pronounced luw"nuti'ks) |
| 5 | -u t i' k s | politics. |
| 4 | -t i' k s | broomsticks, candlesticks, chopsticks, lipsticks, upticks, yardsticks. |
| 3 | -i' k s | crucifix, picnics, toothpicks. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sultanic. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: catlins, lunatic, tincals, uncials. | |
-2 letters: acinus, actins, antics, cantus, catlin, caulis, cutins, cutlas, incult, instal, insult, linacs, nastic, sultan, sunlit, ticals, tincal, tunica, tunics, uncial. | |
-3 letters: actin, alist, anils, antic, antis, aulic, aunts, cains, canst, cants, cauls, clans, clast, clits, culti, cults, cutin, cutis, ictus, incus, laics, linac, lints, litas, lunas, lunts, nails. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: suctional. | |
+2 letters: anilinctus, clinquants, culminates, inculcates, inculpates, inoculants, inoculates, inosculate, lacustrine, lubricants, osculating, osculation, supplicant, ultrasonic. | |
+3 letters: allocutions, antimusical, calumniates, communalist, copulations, cumulations, curtainless, exultancies, gesticulant, glauconites, inculcators, inoculators, inosculated, inosculates, inscrutable, inscrutably, instinctual, maculations, masculinist, masculinity, novaculites, nucleations, osculations, outclassing, peculations, petulancies, sacculation, speculating, speculation, spiculation, supplicants, tenaciously, ulcerations, ultrasonics, unclarities, unrealistic, vulcanisate. | |
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