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manic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective manic has 1 sense
- manic(s = adj.all) frenzied - 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"; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity" Derived forms noun mania1, noun mania2
CIDE DICTIONARY
manic, a. [Gr. maniko`s mad, frenzied.].
Of or pert. to, or characterized by, mania, or excitement; frenzied; as, with manic energy. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
manic, adj. of or affected by mania.
Idiom
manic-depressive Psychol. adj. affected by or relating to a mental disorder with alternating periods of elation and depression.
--n. a person having such a disorder.
--n. a person having such a disorder.
Derivative
manically adv.
THESAURUS
manic
abnormal, agog, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, bereft of reason, brainsick, bursting, carried away, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, ebullient, effervescent, excited, exhilarated, fired, flighty, hallucinated, high, hopped up, impassioned, inflamed, insane, irrational, keyed up, lathered up, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, moved, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, ready to burst, reasonless, roused, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, strange, tetched, thrilled, tingling, tingly, touched, turned-on, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wandering, whipped up, witless, worked up, wrought up, yeasty
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