Maniac
['meɪnɪæk] or ['menɪæk]
Definition
(noun.) a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something.
Checker: Mitchell--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
(n.) A raving lunatic; a madman.
Typed by Jerry
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Madman, lunatic, bedlamite, insane person.
Edited by Josie
Examples
- They mean to make either an idiot or a maniac of him, and take out a commission of lunacy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I treated them as the ravings of a maniac. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The maniac became composed; his person rose higher; authority beamed from his countenance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I do not recall what I said or did, but I know that for an instant I was seized with the rage of a maniac. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- For a wife I have but the maniac upstairs: as well might you refer me to some corpse in yonder churchyard. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He capered among the mob like a very maniac. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A screaming, gibbering maniac writhed in my grasp. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Such was the maniac language of her enthusiasm. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- That man has the plague, said the maniac calmly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They see the long-buried prisoner disinterred, a maniac or an idiot! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The man would be half a poet, if he were not wholly a maniac; and perhaps a prophet, if he were not a profligate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The maniac bellowed: she parted her shaggy locks from her visage, and gazed wildly at her visitors. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Twice, for one minute, they let me rest while they extorted bucksheesh, and then continued their maniac flight up the Pyramid. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checker: Micawber