Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Psychiatry Relating to, affected by, or resembling mania.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. manic-depressive
- adj. Of or pertaining to someone who exhibits mania or craziness; wicked.
- adj. Colloquial, to exhibit great energy, as one who is in the manic phase of manic depression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of or pert. to, or characterized by, mania, or excitement; frenzied.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to or affected with mania.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason
Etymologies
Examples
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I will tell you, though, on what you called manic Monday.
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Today's market, maybe more than ever before, is full of short term manic depressives being fed news stories by, more manic depressives.
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"What's kind of a red flag is when it is atypical for the person to talk like this," doing it only when they are in manic cycle but not at other times, she says.
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* Barnicide: the crime a parent is tempted to commit after being over-exposed to a certain manic purple dinosaur
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BARNICIDE: the crime a parent is tempted to commit after being over-exposed to a certain manic purple dinosaur.
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FISHER: I like the name manic depression, though, because it describes what it ` s like.
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I'll probably remain manic until it starts to get reader reviews and such.
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And the word manic depression was never attached to what was wrong with him because he had a psychiatrist who didn't believe in it, thought if you put a name on things that it made it worse, and I didn't know it.
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But to me he's more interesting as the translator of two peculiarly great and problematic novelists: the Frenchman Georges Perec, whose work is characterized by a manic concern for form, and the Albanian Ismail Kadare, whose work Bellos translates not from the original Albanian, but from French translations supervised by Kadare.
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To this condition, Kraeplin give the name manic depression -- a term that although still in use, has been supplanted by the category of "bipolar disorder" in official psychiatric nomenclature.
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