- crazy, silly or extremely stupid
- lunatic ideas
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See lunatic in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe lunatic fringe noun
- [singular + singular or plural verb] (disapproving) those members of a political or other group whose views are considered to be very extreme and crazy
- They stressed that only the lunatic fringe of the movement was/were involved in the incident.
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