lunatic英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

An insane person.

— While there are other races (or individuals—heaven forgive me, I am no ethnologist) who think you a criminal or a lunatic unless you carefully plod along from step to step like a hippopotamus out of water.

形容词 adj.

Crazed, mad, insane, demented.
Relating to the Moon; lunar. literary,rare

— As the narrator turns his attention to the moon itself and its Lunatic inhabitants, Heinsius seems to draw on the True History, but is still within the confines of the Icaromenippus.
Influenced or affected by the Moon. literary,rare

— This I remember: she was false as the lunatic sea.

词形变化

lunatics plural lunatick alternative,obsolete more lunatic comparative most lunatic superlative lunatick alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词

crazed insane mad demented maniacal psychotic

衍生词

lunatically

词源

词源 1

From Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Late Latin lunaticus (“moonstruck”), derived from Latin luna (“moon”), the connection stemming from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity.

词源 2

From Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Late Latin lunaticus (“moonstruck”), derived from Latin luna (“moon”), the connection stemming from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity.