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lunacy

«lunacy» in Mova's school dictionary: great foolishness or madness, an act that makes no sense — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (lunacies)

meaning for a pupil

Lunacy is great foolishness or madness, an act that makes no sense. (Old-fashioned word for madness.) tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales a wild or mad act, said as a complaint

examples

  • It was sheer lunacy to climb the cliff in the storm. tree →
  • His plan was pure lunacy. tree →
  • «Lunacy!» shouted the angry man. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «lunacy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

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