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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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunacy/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunacy/#x1)
- His plan was pure lunacy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunacy/#x2)
- «Lunacy!» shouted the angry man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunacy/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lunacy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunacy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.