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[…]: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 269:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, chapter 53, in The Ministry for the Future, New York, N.Y.: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 235:", "text": "That or I might bounce off something I hit and head back out into space, become the light in the eye of some lunatic observer, looking up at the big blue ball and seeing me bang something in their retina.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Relating to the Moon; lunar." ], "links": [ [ "Moon", "Moon#Proper noun" ], [ "lunar", "lunar#Adjective" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(literary, rare) Relating to the Moon; lunar." ], "tags": [ "literary", "rare" ] }, { "categories": [ "English literary terms", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with rare senses" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1956 Summer, David R[ytman] Slavitt, “Partiti da Cotesti che son Morti”, in The Kenyon Review, volume XVIII, number 3, Gambier, O.H.: Kenyon College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370:", "text": "This I remember: she was false as the lunatic sea.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Influenced or affected by the Moon." ], "links": [ [ "Moon", "Moon#Proper noun" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(literary, rare) Influenced or affected by the Moon." ], "tags": [ "literary", "rare" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈluːnətɪk/" }, { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lunatic.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lunatic.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lunatic.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lunatic.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lunatic.wav.ogg" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "crazed" }, { "word": "insane" }, { "word": "mad" }, { "word": "demented" }, { "word": "maniacal" }, { "word": "psychotic" }, { "tags": [ "obsolete" ], "word": "lunatick" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "lud", "sense": "crazed", "word": "луд" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "pobǎrkan", "sense": "crazed", "word": "побъркан" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "crazed", "word": "llunàtic" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "crazed", "word": "šílený" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "crazed", "word": "bláznivý" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "crazed", "word": "lunatika" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "crazed", "word": "hullu" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "crazed", "word": "lunatique" }, { "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "saharurí", "sense": "crazed", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "סַהֲרוּרִי" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "crazed", "word": "gealtach" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "crazed", "word": "gan chiall" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "crazed", "word": "lunaticus" }, { "code": "nrf", "lang": "Norman", "sense": "crazed", "word": "leunatique" }, { "code": "ota", "lang": "Ottoman Turkish", "roman": "deli", "sense": "crazed", "word": "دلی" }, { "code": "ota", "lang": "Ottoman Turkish", "roman": "mecnun", "sense": "crazed", "word": "مجنون" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "crazed", "word": "lunático" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "sumasšédšij", "sense": "crazed", "word": "сумасше́дший" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "duševnobolʹnój", "sense": "crazed", "word": "душевнобольно́й" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "poméšannyj", "sense": "crazed", "word": "поме́шанный" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "čóknutyj", "sense": "crazed", "tags": [ "colloquial" ], "word": "чо́кнутый" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "crazed", "word": "šialený" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "crazed", "word": "bláznivý" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "crazed", "word": "lunático" }, { "code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "crazed", "word": "lloerig" } ], "word": "lunatic" }
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