Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A psychotic or otherwise mentally ill person who exhibits violent or bizarre behavior. Not used in psychiatric diagnosis.
- noun A person who has an excessive enthusiasm or desire for something.
- noun A person who acts in a wildly irresponsible way.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Raving with madness; mad or crazy; insane.
- noun One who raves with madness; a madman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
- noun A raving lunatic; a madman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An insane person, especially one who suffers from a
mania . - noun A
fanatic , a person with an obsession.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an insane person
- adjective wildly disordered
- noun a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One G Beck screaming like a maniac is one too many for this country to handle.
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We have an emergency button to press if some maniac is holding us at gunpoint.
Ground Control To Major Tom. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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This maniac is out of control and needs to be stopped.
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We have this irrational fear that if we let our precious snowflakes do something by themselves, some maniac is going to grab them and take them to their dungeon.
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Sorry - no time to run through the “Continuum of Force” when some maniac is right in your face with a weapon as soon as you get out of the van.
The Last Pop Song « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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That maniac is so far removed from reality that we here on planet earth look like ants to him.
new products from my completely unexciting life moriarty6 2007
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Random, senseless death at the hands of a deranged, homicidal maniac is a terrible tragedy.
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I hear indulging in maniac laughter is good for you (in moderation).
Aww, -someone-’s having a heterosexuality crisis. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2006
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Z. September 13th, 2005 at 1: 03 pm meg_mac says: scary, scary, scary!! and to think this maniac is multiplied by the thousands if not millions. i sure wish john q public would start reading and not let the minister decide for them how to vote.
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In Tell Me No Secrets (1993), people are inexplicably disappearing from Chicago prosecutor Jess Koster's life And from the shadow of her past, a maniac is stalking her until there is no one Jess can trust.
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