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lunatic, madman

n. an insane person

maniacal

adj. wildly disordered; "a maniacal frenzy"

kook, odd fellow, odd fish, queer bird, queer duck

n. someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group

pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate

n. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

fanatic, fiend

n. a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"--Winston Churchill

paranoid, paranoiac

n. a person afflicted with paranoia

schizophrenic

n. someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia

follower

n. someone who travels behind or pursues another

traditionalist, diehard

n. one who adheres to traditional views

extremist

n. a person who holds extreme views

fan, buff, lover, devotee, afficionado

n. an ardent follower and admirer

booster, friend, admirer, supporter, champion, protagonist

n. a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library"

fan, sports fan

n. an enthusiastic devotee of sports

partisan, zealot

n. a fervent and even militant proponent of something

revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter

n. a radical supporter of political or social revolution

anarchist, nihilist

n. an advocate of anarchism

bigot

n. a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own

eccentric, oddball, geek, eccentric person

n. a person with an unusual or odd personality

frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied

adj. excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye"

hysteric, hysterical

adj. characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia"

fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid

adj. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist"

demoniac, demoniacal, possessed, amuck, amok, berserk

adj. in a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows"

sick, crazy, disturbed, mad, distracted, unbalanced, brainsick, demented, unhinged

adj. affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"

certified, certifiable

adj. fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly)

crackbrained, idiotic

adj. insanely irresponsible; "an idiotic idea"

crazed, deranged, half-crazed

adj. driven insane

touched, fey

adj. slightly insane

frenzied, frenzy-free

adj. affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason; "a frenzied attack"; "a frenzied mob"; "the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity"

schizophrenic, hebephrenic

adj. suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior

lunatic, moonstruck

adj. insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon

manic, maniclike

adj. resembling the mania of manic-depressive illness

manic-depressive

adj. suffering from a disorder characterized by alternating mania and depression

unsound, unstable, mentally ill

adj. suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"

of unsound mind, non compos mentis

adj. not of sound mind, memory, or understanding; in law, not competent to go to trial

paranoid

adj. suffering from paranoia

psychopathic, psychopathologic, psychopathological

adj. suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder

psychotic

adj. characteristic of or suffering from psychosis

raving, wild, raving mad

adj. talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic"

schizophrenic

adj. suffering from some form of schizophrenia; "schizophrenic patients"

screw-loose, screwy

adj. not behaving normally

sane

adj. mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane"

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