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plural of lunatic
Synonyms & Antonyms of lunatics
1
a person having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind
- he was raving like a lunatic
Synonyms for lunatics
- bugs,
- crackbrains,
- crazies,
- fools,
- fruitcakes,
- head cases,
- loonies,
- loons,
- maniacs,
- nutcases,
- nuts,
- nutters
- [British slang],
- psychopaths,
- psychos,
- sickies,
- sickos,
- wackos
- (also whackos)
Words Related to lunatics
- madmen,
- madwomen
- manic-depressives,
- monomaniacs,
- mythomaniacs,
- neurotics,
- obsessive-compulsives,
- obsessives,
- paranoids,
- psychoneurotics,
- psychotics,
- schizoids,
- schizophrenes,
- schizophrenics,
- schizos,
- sociopaths
- characters,
- codgers,
- crackpots,
- cracks,
- cranks,
- eccentrics,
- fantastics,
- flakes,
- kooks,
- oddballs,
- oddities,
- originals,
- quizzes,
- screwballs,
- tykes
- (also tikes)
- [chiefly British],
- weirdos,
- zanies
2
a person who lacks good sense or judgment
- no, you can't ski off the roof, you lunatic!
Synonyms for lunatics
- berks
- [British],
- boobies,
- charlies
- (also charleys)
- [British],
- cuckoos,
- ding-a-lings,
- dingbats,
- ding-dongs,
- dipsticks,
- doofuses
- (also dufuses)
- [slang],
- featherheads,
- fools,
- geese,
- gits
- [British],
- half-wits,
- jackasses,
- mooncalves,
- nincompoops,
- ninnies,
- ninnyhammers,
- nits
- [chiefly British],
- nitwits,
- nutcases,
- nuts,
- simpletons,
- simps,
- turkeys,
- yo-yos
Words Related to lunatics
- madmen,
- madwomen
- airheads,
- birdbrains,
- blockheads,
- dodoes
- (or dodos),
- dolts,
- donkeys,
- dopes,
- dorks
- [slang],
- dumbbells,
- dummies,
- dunces,
- fatheads,
- ganders,
- goons,
- idiots,
- ignoramuses
- (also ignorami),
- imbeciles,
- know-nothings,
- knuckleheads,
- morons,
- numskulls
- (or numbskulls),
- pinheads,
- schlubs
- (also shlubs)
- [slang],
- schlumps
- [slang],
- schnooks
- [slang],
- stocks
- chumps,
- losers,
- schlemiels
- (also shlemiels)
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