lunatic
/ˈluːnətɪk/noun
उच्चारण लूनटिक
पागल, सनकी, विक्षिप्त व्यक्ति
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[C] disapproving
a person who does crazy or very foolish things
पागल, सनकी, विक्षिप्त व्यक्ति
- Some lunatic was driving on the wrong side of the highway.
- A lunatic overtook the bus on a blind curve.
- Only a lunatic would drive through that flood.
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- The lunatic driver cut across three lanes without warning.
- They called his plan lunatic, but it eventually worked.
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[C] old-fashioned, offensive
a person who is mentally ill
(पुराना, आपत्तिजनक) मानसिक रोगी
- The old law spoke of 'lunatic asylums'.
- Offensive terms like 'lunatic' are no longer used for patients.
- The word lunatic is old-fashioned and offensive when used for those with mental illness.
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- Mental health is better described by the words doctors use today than by the old word lunatic.
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crazy, foolish or dangerous
पागलपन भरा, मूर्खतापूर्ण
- a lunatic scheme to dig a tunnel to the next village
- Nobody in the village took the lunatic plan to dig a canal seriously.
- It was a lunatic idea to climb the cliff in the rain.
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- The film was based on a lunatic plot that made no sense.
- The lunatic speed of the lorry alarmed everyone on the road.
◇Word family
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lu·na·tic
“Collocations, idioms and sayings
The lunatic fringe (the extreme members of a group).
Idiom 'the lunatic fringe' का अर्थ 'किसी समूह के अतिवादी सदस्य' है।
⌂Word origin and word building
From luna (the moon), because madness was once thought to follow the moon's phases; the same root gives lunar.
यह luna (चंद्रमा) से बना है, क्योंकि पागलपन को चाँद की कलाओं से जोड़ा जाता था; इसी मूल से lunar बना है।
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A mad person; a home for the mentally ill was once called a lunatic asylum (the respectful term now is psychiatric hospital).
'पागल व्यक्ति' के लिए यह शब्द आता है; मानसिक रोगियों के घर को पहले lunatic asylum कहते थे (आज का सम्मानजनक शब्द psychiatric hospital है)।