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Meanings of moonstruck in English

Insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon.

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Examples for "lunatic"
Examples for "lunatic"
1
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
Orthodoxy
2
We've even seen one lunatic allow TV cameras to cover his circumcision.
The Irish Times
3
I think I used to be a bit of a raving lunatic.
The Guardian
4
When he talks you recognize in him the lunatic and the man.
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
5
The lunatic shivered, then hurried out after Geminus on his way home.
Shadows in Bronze
Usage of moonstruck in English
1
From what I have heard, you are as moonstruck as my daughter.
The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance
2
I see the beauty in her heart. Jake looked a little moonstruck.
The Secret of the Dread Forest: The Faire Folk Trilogy
3
Bin gettin' a bit moonstruck, I reckon,-andhe clapped on his hat.
Australia Felix
4
I'll make him think I'm a wishy-washy moonstruck girl, smitten with him.
The Desert of Wheat
5
In the true sense of an ancient phrase, I was moonstruck.
A Miscellany of Men
6
The moonstruck, pale, sentimental calf of many biographers, he never was.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
7
Gerzson felt that if he looked much longer, he would become moonstruck himself.
The Poor Plutocrats
8
Then with a melancholy smile, You think me a moonstruck charlatan, I suppose.
The Madonna of the Future
9
My father says they be all mad together, the moonstruck knaves!
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
10
I am supposed to be moonstruck over a simpering American chit-moonstruck!
The Shuttle
11
In that smirk, Henry can see reflected what a moonstruck booby he must appear.
The crimson petal and the white
12
I was moonstruck by the edge of that confounded lake.
The Pointing Man / A Burmese Mystery
13
And if I'm not mistaken, you're a little bit moonstruck on him, aren't you?
The lady elizabeth
14
He looked at them, thinking they must be moonstruck, for their conduct seemed inexplicable.
East Lynne
15
They behaved, indeed, as they both admitted afterwards, like a couple of moonstruck idiots.
The Evil Shepherd
16
Like a mad-brained, moonstruck hound, he's homing in on you.
Future Lovecraft
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