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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun maniac has 2 senses
- maniac(n = noun.person) lunatic, madman - an insane person; Array has particulars: crazy, looney, loony, nutcase, weirdo, bedlamite, pyromaniac, madwoman
- maniac(n = noun.person) Array - a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something; Array is a kind of enthusiast, fancier
is a kind of diseased person, sick person, sufferer
Derived form adjective maniacal1
Derived form adjective maniac1
Adjective maniac has 1 sense
- maniac(s = adj.all) maniacal - wildly disordered; "a maniacal frenzy" Derived form noun maniac2
CIDE DICTIONARY
maniac, a. [F. maniaque. See Mania.].
Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad. [1913 Webster]
maniac, n.
A raving lunatic; a madman. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
maniac, n. & adj.
--n.
1 colloq. a person exhibiting extreme symptoms of wild behaviour etc.; a madman.
2 colloq. an obsessive enthusiast.
3 Psychol. archaic a person suffering from mania.
--adj. of or behaving like a maniac.
--n.
1 colloq. a person exhibiting extreme symptoms of wild behaviour etc.; a madman.
2 colloq. an obsessive enthusiast.
3 Psychol. archaic a person suffering from mania.
--adj. of or behaving like a maniac.
Derivative
maniacal adj. maniacally adv.
Etymology
LL maniacus f. late Gk maniakos (as MANIA)
THESAURUS
maniac
aliene, batty, bedlamite, berserk, borderline case, crackbrain, cracked, crackpot, crazed, crazy, delirious, dement, demented, demoniac, deranged, energumen, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fiend, flake, fou, frantic, freak, frenetic, frenzied, furious, idiot, kook, loon, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, meshuggenah, non compos, noncompos, nut, phrenetic, psychopath, psychotic, rabid, raging, ranting, raving lunatic, screwball, unsound, violent, weirdo, wild, zealotROGET THESAURUS
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Madman
N madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, candidate for Bedlam, raver, madcap, crazy, energumen, automaniac, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac, hypochondriac (low spirits), crank, Tom o'Bedlam, dreamer, rhapsodist, seer, highflier, enthusiast, fanatic, fanatico, exalte, knight errant, Don Quixote, idiot.
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