| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | lu·na·tic |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l  n -t k |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Suffering from lunacy; insane. 2. Of or for the insane. 3. Wildly or giddily foolish: a lunatic decision. 4. Characterized by lunacy or eccentricity. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Latin l n ticus, from lna, moon. See leuk- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | luna·tic —NOUN
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