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LUNATICS

"LUNATICS" is a plural of: lunatic.

Date "LUNATICS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: LUNATICS

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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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Specialty Definition: Lunatic

(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

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lunatic."

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Crosswords: LUNATICS

Specialty definitions using "LUNATICS": EthnologyHead ShavedMisnomersSTRAIT WAISTCOAT. (references)

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Modern Usage: LUNATICS

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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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Commercial Usage: LUNATICS

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Books

  • Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (reference)

  • Lunatics and lovers; a tribute to the giddy and glittering era of the screen's "screwball" and romantic comedies (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: LUNATICS

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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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Historic Usage: LUNATICS

AuthorDateQuotation

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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Use in Literature: LUNATICS

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

The lunatics will have it all their own way, outside

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Non-Fiction Usage: LUNATICS

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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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Usage Frequency: LUNATICS

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%9733,269

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LUNATICS

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.
 
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Modern Translation: LUNATICS

Language Translations for "LUNATICS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

pazza (foolish woman, lunatic, madwoman). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

δΉ±εΏƒθ€… . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

らγ‚"しγ‚"しゃ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unaticslay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: LUNATICS

Misspellings

"LUNATICS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lomatils, lunachicks, lunitic, Lutatius. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LUNATICS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "LUNATICS" (pronounced luw"nuti'ks)
5-u t i' k spolitics.
4-t i' k sbroomsticks, candlesticks, chopsticks, lipsticks, upticks, yardsticks.
3-i' k scrucifix, picnics, toothpicks.

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Anagrams: LUNATICS

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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