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Definition: Maniac |
ManiacAdjective1. Wildly disordered; "a maniacal frenzy". Noun1. An insane person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "maniac" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In psychiatry a maniac is a person who suffers the mental disease called mania. This type of personality shows an emotionally expansive behaviour, hyperirritability, excess of loquacity, hyperkinesis (hyperactivity and inability to pay attention), and an excessive imagination.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Maniac."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MANIAC | English | Mechanical and numerical intergator and computer | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ManiacSynonyms: maniac(p) (adj), maniacal (adj), lunatic (n), madman (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Madman | Noun: madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, candidate for Bedlam, raver, madcap, crazy; energumen; automaniac, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac; hypochondriac; (low spirits); crank, Tom o'Bedlam. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Maniac |
| Specialty definitions using "maniac": Masaniello. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Maniac" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (crank, cranky, fiend, maggot, maniac, maniacial, phrenetic). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson) Slow down, you're driving like a maniac! (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster) Lisa, you don't spend ten years as a homicidal maniac without learning a few things about dynamite (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Well look at you. Toxic as a crow, sneezing like a maniac, cigarette ash all down your front, nervous, out of breath, you've got married man written across your forehead in big neon letters (Man in the Moon; writing credit: Basil Dearden; John Foley) Your family wasn't killed by a maniac. (Batman Forever; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lee Batchler) | |
Lyrics | Damn right I'm a maniac (Break Stuff; performing artist: Limp Bizkit) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Psycho Maniac (1968) Maniac (1963) Neutron vs. the Maniac (1962) Door-to-Door Maniac (1961) Maniac (1934) | |
Song Titles | Maniac (performing artist: Michael Sembello) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Maniac" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.21% of the time. "Maniac" is used about 132 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.21% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.79% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 132 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "maniac": maniac depressive ♦ sex maniac ♦ speed maniac. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "maniac": maniac-haunted. | |
Ending with "maniac": drum-maniac, sex-maniac. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "maniac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | maniak (crank, manic). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممسوس (insane, mad, possessed, touched), مهووس (manic, obsessed), مجنون (barmy, bedlam, bonkers, crazy, daft, demented, dotty, fool, insane, mad, madcap, maniacal, nut, off one's nut, out of one's head, out of one's mind, scatty, screwy, tomfool, up the pole), الممسوس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | маниашки, маниак (faddist), луд (bedlamite, bonkers, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, kinky, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, off one's nut, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, possessed, potty, scatty, screwy, wild). (various references) | |
Chinese | 疯子 (lunatic). (various references) | |
Czech | maniak. (various references) | |
Farsi | مجنون (Amok, Demented, Insane, Loco, Lunatic), عصبانی (Huffy, Mad, Nervous, Nervy, Pelting, Waxy), ادم دیوانه (Psyho), دیوانه وار (Demoniac). (various references) | |
French | maniaque (maniacal, manic). (various references) | |
German | wahnsinnig (brilliant, crazed, crazy, delirious, deliriously, demented, frantic, frenzied, incredibly, insane, lunatic, mad, madly, maniacal, nuts, psychotically, raving, terrific). (various references) | |
Greek | μανιακόσ (crank, maniacal), τρελλόσ (berserk, insane, loco, loony, luny, mad, nut, nuts, rompish). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משו'ע (crazy, insane, lunatic, mad, scatty), מ יאק, של מ י". (various references) | |
Hungarian | mániás (manic). (various references) | |
Indonesian | maniak, orang gila. (various references) | |
Italian | maniaco (addicted, crazy, mad, manic, pers). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, enthusiast, madeleine, mademoiselle, madonna, Madras, Madras check, Madrid, madrigal, mania, manicure, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manufacture, manuscript, matrix dynamics, minutia, muddler, mutton, sailor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マニアック (enthusiast). (various references) | |
Korean | 미치광이 (madman, Madmen). (various references) | |
Manx | keoie (crazy, fiery, frenetic, frenzied, furious, insane, lunatic, savage, vicious, wild, wild as person), fer baanrit (madman, psychopath, zealot), baanrit (demented, disordered, distracted, disturbed, mad). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aniacmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maníaco (crazy, faddy, maggoty, maniacal, manic, moonstruck), louco (brain sick, bughouse, crack-brained, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, distraught, far gone, fey, fool, foolish, frenetic, insane, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniacal, nuts, phrenetic, raving, wacky), alienado (alienated, bedlamite, insane, madman, maniacal, non compos). (various references) | |
Romanian | maniac (crank, cranky, fiend, maggot, maniacial, phrenetic), pasionat (ardent, avid, eager, enthusiast, flaming, glowing, hot stuff, hot-blooded, impassioned, keen, passional, passionate, perfervid, tropical, warm), nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, distracted, distraught, extravagant, fool, foolish, frantic, frenzied, infatuated, insane, lunatic, mad, mad about, madcap, madman, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, raving, reckless, unruly, wild). (various references) | |
Russian | маньяк (monomaniac). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | manijak, manijački. (various references) | |
Spanish | maníaco (maniacal). (various references) | |
Swedish | galning (loon, loony, lunatic, madman, madwoman, screwball, tomfool). (various references) | |
Turkish | manyak (dippy, maniacal, manic, wacky). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схиблений (crazed, crazy, crazy about, mad, maniacal, nuts), маніяк (monomaniac, phrenetic, push over), маніакальний (maniacal, phrenetic). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người điên (bedlamite, lunatic, lunatical, madman, mental), kỳ quặc (crotchety, droll, oddly, quizzical, strangely, unaccountable), điên cu"ng g n. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "maniac": maniacal, maniacally, maniacs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "maniac": bibliomaniac, dipsomaniac, egomaniac, kleptomaniac, megalomaniac, monomaniac, mythomaniac, nymphomaniac, pyromaniac. (additional references) | |
Words containing "maniac": bibliomaniacal, bibliomaniacs, dipsomaniacal, dipsomaniacs, egomaniacal, egomaniacally, egomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, megalomaniacal, megalomaniacally, megalomaniacs, monomaniacal, monomaniacally, monomaniacs, mythomaniacs, nymphomaniacal, nymphomaniacs, pyromaniacal, pyromaniacs. (additional references) | |
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"Maniac" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amnia, Anaik, Fanica, Macnair, Magnac, Mahia, mainac, Mainace, Mainau, mainia, majia, makia, manai, Manaia, mancia, mangia, Manhica, manian, maniaq, maniat, manica, manical, manich, manina, maniot, Manja, Manjack, mannie, Mannucci, Manoah, manufac, Matica, Mcneece, menai, menia, Mfanya, monia, monica, Monjack, Mpaiac, Mujica, munia, Sanica, sanitact. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "maniac" (pronounced mā"nēa'k) |
| 6 | m ā" n ē a' k | megalomaniac, nymphomaniac. |
| 4 | -n ē a' k | insomniac. |
| 3 | -ē a' k | amnesiac, cardiac, zodiac. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: caiman. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: amain, amnia, amnic, anima, mania, manic. | |
-2 letters: amia, amin, cain, main, mana, mica, mina. | |
-3 letters: aim, ain, ama, ami, ana, ani, cam, can, mac, man, nam, nim. | |
-4 letters: aa, ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: anaemic, caimans, maniacs, manioca. | |
+2 letters: adynamic, ambiance, ammoniac, amnesiac, analcime, anatomic, animalic, armonica, calamine, calamint, campaign, chainman, chairman, chazanim, claimant, cyanamid, macaroni, mackinaw, maenadic, magician, mandalic, mandioca, manganic, maniacal, maniocas, marocain, shamanic. | |
+3 letters: acuminate, ambiances, ammoniacs, amnesiacs, analcimes, anarchism, antimacho, armonicas, cacuminal, calamined, calamines, calamints, campaigns, campanile, campanili, carbamino, carcinoma, catamenia, chairmans, champaign, chazzanim, claimants, cobalamin, cyanamide, cyanamids, dynamical, egomaniac, harmonica, imbalance, kanamycin, macaronic, macaronis, machinate, mackinaws, magicians, manacling, mandiocas, manically, marocains, naumachia, panoramic. | |
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