lunatics

noun

plural of lunatic
as in fools
a person who lacks good sense or judgment no, you can't ski off the roof, you lunatic!

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Recent Examples of lunatics While sane Americans were celebrating the MLB All-Star Game in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, the lunatics in Portland, Oregon were cheering along as two men made out on a baseball field during a 'Heated Rivalry' theme night. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026 The lunatics are running the asylum. — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026 Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Michael Cera, Will Arnett and other lunatics round out the cast. — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026 People have been hurt so badly by radical left lunatics that worked for the Biden administration and Sleepy Joe. — NBC news, 7 June 2026 To get a sentence like that in a communist, radically left-wing city of liberal lunatics is truly amazing. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026 Secretary of State Marco Rubio wasn’t far behind, saying the war is being waged against religious lunatics. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026 Even then, though, the popular take — the story of the lunatics taking over asylum — didn’t sit right with me. — Paul Fischer, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026 Beating these lunatics was incredible, right? — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunatics
  1. fools
  2. nuts
  3. geese
  4. idiots
  5. morons
Noun
  • This is an ignoble war making monsters and fools out of its participants, and against the uncontrollable weapons that are dragons, everyone’s resolve is crumbling.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 June 2026
  • This game makes fools of us all.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 16 June 2026
Definition of fools
Noun
  • Some bars with nuts and seeds offer better balance, but many lean more toward dessert than a truly nourishing snack.
    — Lynn Andriani, Martha Stewart, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Fats are found in foods like butter, oils, nuts, meat, and fish.
    — Jillian Kubala, HEALTH, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of nuts
Noun
  • Captive flocks were established, and Canada geese were reintroduced back into native areas by transplanting geese from those captive or existing flocks.
    — Mark Vrtiska, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
  • Officials said a mix of exotic animals, livestock and domestic pets were living on the property, including dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, geese, donkeys, goats and pigs.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 10 July 2026
Definition of geese
Noun
  • Tallahassee lawmakers must think their constituents are idiots.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026
  • In McBride’s work, collections of idiots and unlikable misfits strive for power and achievement and are inevitably foiled by their own flaws.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 16 July 2026
Definition of idiots
Noun
  • There are complicated brain-chemistry factors involved that have to do with testosterone, and dopaminergic systems, and kappa-opioid receptors, all of which seem to add up to a Jim Gaffigan joke about how men are morons compared with their wives.
    — McKay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
Definition of morons

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