maniacal
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8.6
- adjective
- /məˈnaɪəkl/
- Her maniacal obsession with winning every game made her a fierce competitor.
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Watch on YouTubeSurely people are not going to vote for this maniacal nut job.
- Surely people are not going to vote for this maniacal nut job.
- No, you continue to get more maniacal with the process over and over and over again.
- And all of that informs, you know, his approach to food and why he's so maniacal about it.
- And as soon as I came back, my compliance on the things that he told me to do was maniacal, monomaniacal.
- She was supported by a will of iron, by a maniacal taste for perfection, and by an incredible stubbornness.
- On the flip side of that, his maniacal intensity to detail means that unlike Boeing, he knows how to get rockets into orbit.
- He he is maniacal about his friends, like guest speakers that will come in the way we treat them and they all just rave about how we treat them.
- It was a maniac, maniacal dreamer, wild card.
- That's been the the maniacal Dr.
- Just I mean, just maniacal, absolute disaster and on both sides.
Examples
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She was supported by a will of iron, by a maniacal taste for perfection, and by an incredible stubbornness.
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The night manager leaned close into Ellis's face, his maniacal eyes seeming almost to glow.
Fiction book (1996) -
As a parent, this is an issue that I am maniacal about.
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It's let's take the risk level of research, but then pursue it with the maniacal focus of a start up.
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Then he laughed that high, maniacal laugh for which he would soon be noted.
Fiction book (1995) -
And the only way to overcome that, I have found is to have a sort of maniacal, aggressive quality.
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David stares at them, his lips spread into a maniacal grin.
Fiction book (1992) -
Let's say that the point is to make fun of the NRA's maniacal opposition to the slightest attempt at regulating weapons.
Fiction book (1995) -
Go study LeBron after he went to the Olympics with Kobe because he noticed Kobe was maniacal about his training.
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The villain in the movie had a maniacal laugh that sent chills down my spine.
Synonyms
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1.3
Very excited and unable to stay calm
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5.0
Acting in a wild and uncontrolled way
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7.4
Very excited and active in a wild way
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7.2
Being very angry or excited and out of control
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8.0
Acting or feeling very strange
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7.8
A person who is not thinking or acting in a normal and safe way
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6.5
Showing very strong excitement and uncontrolled actions
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7.1
Very wild and excited in a way that seems out of control
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7.2
Acting or speaking in a wild, not sensible way
Extremely energetic and restless with very fast speech and thoughts
Antonyms
How Frenzied
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Maniacal comes from the word mania, meaning 'madness' or 'very strong excitement', and from maniac, a person with that kind of madness. So maniacal describes behaviour that is wild, uncontrolled, or full of extreme energy.