Manic

Definition: Manic

Manic

Adjective

1. Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason; "a frenzied attack"; "a frenzied mob"; "the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "manic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Etymology: Manic \Man"ic\, adjective. [Greek expression mad, frenzied.]. (Websters 1913)

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Manic

Crosswords: Manic

And we have a cousin who's a drunk, an aunt who's manic, and a father who's invisible. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Stay by my side as my light grows dim as my blood slows down and my nerves shatter with stabbing pain as my heart grows weak and the wheels of my being turn slowly Stay by my side as my fragile body is racked by pain which verges on truth and manic time continues scattering dust and furious life burtsts out in flames. (Espinazo del Diablo, El; writing credit: Guillermo del Toro; Antonio Trashorras)

It's just another manic Monday ("Manic Monday"; performing artist: The Bangles)

Manic demise, absolution mine ("Manic Demise"; performing artist: The Creation)

Manic (2001)

Manic Monday (performing artist: The Bangles)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism (reference)

• The Depression Workbook 2 Ed: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression (reference)

• We Heard the Angels of Madness: A Family Guide to Coping With Manic Depression (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Manic Moms (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Manic Nirvana (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Manic episodes themselves are very disruptive. (references)

Patients who have a manic episode are at high risk for recurrences. (references)

Some individuals with manic syndromes may be euphoric, overconfident, and optimistic. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "manic": Manic depression ♦ manic depressive ♦ manic depressive illness ♦ manic depressive psychosis ♦ manic depressive reaction ♦ manic disorder. Additional references.

Beginning with "manic": manic-depression, manic-depressive, manic-depressive psychosis, manic-depressives, manic-satyric.

Ending with "manic": non-manic.

Albanian

maniak (crank, maniac). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهووس (maniac, obsessed), ‏مسي, ‏هوسي, ‏جنوني (crazy, furious, insane, lunatic, madcap, terrific). (various references)

Chinese 

狂躁. (various references)

Czech

šílený (berserk, crackpot, crazy, demented, frenzied, furious, harebrained, insane, lunatic, mad, terrible, terrific, tomfool). (various references)

Danish

manisk. (various references)

Dutch

manisch. (various references)

Farsi 

شیدا (Lovelorn), دیوانه (Bedlam, Berserk, Crazy, Cuckoo, Demented, Fanatic, Fey, Gaga, Harebrained, Insane, Loco, Loony, Lunatic, Mad, Madbrained, Madcap, Natural, Nut, Nutty, Psychotic). (various references)

Finnish

maaninen, sairaalloisen kiihkeä ja hilpeä, kiihko-. (various references)

French

maniaque (maniac, maniacal). (various references)

German

manisch. (various references)

Greek 

μανιακός (lunatic). (various references)

Hebrew 

ש�'עו� י (crazy, insane, loony, mad). (various references)

Hungarian

mániás (maniac). (various references)

Italian

maniaco (addicted, crazy, mad, maniac, pers). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

躁鬱 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そううつ. (various references)

Pig Latin

anicmay

Portuguese

alienado (alienated, bedlamite, insane, madman, maniacal, non-acceptance). (various references)

Russian 

страдающий манией. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

maničan. (various references)

Spanish

maníaco (maniac, maniacal). (various references)

Swedish

manisk, maniker (maniac). (various references)

Turkish

manyak (dippy, maniac, maniacal, wacky). (various references)

Ukranian 

маніакально-депресивний синдром (manic depressive), маніакально-депресивний (manic depressive). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "manic": manically, manicotti, manics, manicure, manicured, manicures, manicuring, manicurist, manicurists. (additional references)

Words ending with "manic": aldermanic, councilmanic, firemanic, germanic, hypermanic, hypomanic, megalomanic, shamanic, talismanic. (additional references)

Words containing "manic": talismanically. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Manic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amancio, amenic, Amni, amnic, amric, anci, anic, Emancia, ganic, kaunic, Macnissi, Madnick, mafic, Magnac, maic, mainichi, maji, majic, malic, malik, manah, mancia, mancy, Mandich, mandis, mangic, Manhica, mani, manica, manich, Manicou, manics, manie, manig, Manika, Manin, manip, manis, manish, Manix, Manjil, Manjit, Mankiw, manni, mannie, Mannin, Mannis, Mannix, Mannucci, mannys, manoc, mansit, manuf, manuka, Manyika, mapic, Maric, Marnoch, Marnock, masic, Masik, matic, mavic, Mcneece, Meinich, Melnik, menac, mijic, Minack, minic, Minnich, Minyip, Mitnick, moenich, monic, monice, monig, Monix, Namik, Namiki, Namiq, nanac, nanic, nannick, Vanick, yanic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amnic.

-1 letter: amin, cain, main, mica, mina.

-2 letters: aim, ain, ami, ani, cam, can, mac, man, nam, nim.

-3 letters: ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, na.

+1 letter: aminic, anemic, anomic, caiman, camion, cinema, iceman, macing, maniac, manics, manioc, mantic.

+2 letters: ammonic, amnesic, anaemic, anosmic, caimans, calming, camions, camping, campion, carmine, catmint, cinemas, coaming, cranium, cumarin, dynamic, encomia, limacon, machine, maniacs, manioca, maniocs, mantric, masonic, melanic, minicab, minicam, minicar, minorca, monacid, monadic, narcism, nematic, nomadic, panicum, pemican.

+3 letters: aconitum, acrimony, acromion, actinism, actinium, adynamic, aluminic, ambiance, ambience, amercing, ammoniac, amnesiac, amnesics, amnestic, amnionic, amniotic, analcime, anatomic, animalic, anoxemic, armonica, calamine, calamint, cameoing, campaign, camphine, campings, campions, carmines, caroming, catmints, chainman, chainmen, chairman, chairmen, champing, champion, charming, chazanim, cinnamic, cinnamon, cinnamyl, claimant, claiming, clamming, clamping, coamings, coinmate, comaking, comedian, complain, coumarin, cramming, cramping, craniums, creaming, cremains, criminal, cumarins, cyanamid, daemonic, daimonic, demoniac, dynamics, feminacy, francium, germanic, gnomical, harmonic, inchmeal, inimical, intimacy, laconism, limacine, limacons, macaroni, machined, machines, mackinaw, mackling, maculing, maenadic, magician, magnesic, magnetic, magnific, manciple, mandalic, mandioca, manganic, maniacal, manicure, maniocas, mannitic, marching, marocain, matching, mechanic, melanics, menacing, meniscal, minacity, minicabs, minicamp, minicams, minicars, minorcas, moccasin, monacids, monastic, monecian, monoacid, morainic, musician, mycelian, narcisms, neumatic, nickname, omniarch, pandemic, panicums, pemicans, pemmican, pitchman, romantic, scamming, scamping, scandium, semantic, shamanic, simoniac, smacking, stickman, sycamine, syngamic, tsunamic, tympanic.

+4 letters: aconitums, acromions, acronymic, actinisms, actiniums, acuminate, aeronomic, agronomic, ambiances, ambiences, ammoniacs, ammonitic, amnesiacs, analcimes, anarchism, anglicism, animistic, anticrime, antimacho, antimycin, antinomic, antonymic, armonicas, autonomic, becalming, cacuminal, cairngorm, calamined, calamines, calamints, calcimine, calumnies, cambering, campaigns, campanile, campanili, campesino, camphines, campiness, campusing, carbamino, carcinoma, carroming, catamenia, centigram, chairmans, chammying, champaign, champions, chazzanim, chazzenim, chromatin, cinematic, cinnamons, cinnamyls, claimants, clamoring, climaxing, cobalamin, cognomina, coinmates, combating, comedians, companied, companies, companion, comparing, compendia, complains, complaint, compliant, contagium, coumarins, cremating, cremation, criminals, criminate, culminant, culminate, cyanamide, cyanamids, decamping, demoniacs, demonical, dominance, dominical, dynamical, dynamitic, egomaniac, embracing, emittance, emplacing, encamping, encomiast, enigmatic, enzymatic, exciseman, firemanic, franciums, geomantic, grimacing, gymnastic, gynaecium, harmonica, harmonics, hematinic, hypomanic, imbalance, immanence, immanency, impacting, impaction, impedance, insomniac, kanamycin, kinematic, laconisms, lemniscal, luminance, macaronic, macaronis, macedoine, machinate, machinery, machining, machinist, macintosh, mackinaws, magicians, magicking, magnetics, magnifico, manacling, manciples, mandiocas, manically, manicotti, manicured, manicures, manticore, marocains, masculine, mechanics, mechanism, mechanist, mechanize, medicinal, melanitic, melanotic, mendacity, mendicant, mescaline, messianic, militance, militancy, mincemeat, minicamps, misacting, mischance, miscreant, moccasins, monachism, monarchic, monastics, monatomic, monoacids, monobasic, monodical, monogamic, mortician, municipal, muscadine, muscarine, musicians, mutagenic, naumachia, nicknamed, nicknamer, nicknames, nonatomic, nonimpact, numerical, nystagmic, omniarchs, onomastic, pandemics, panmictic, panoramic, pemmicans, pneumatic, policeman, romancing, romantics, scandiums, scramming, screaming, semantics, simoniacs, switchman, sycamines, taxonomic, unclaimed, undynamic, unmusical, vacuuming, volcanism, vulcanism.

+5 letters: acclaiming, acrimonies, actomyosin, adamancies, admittance, affirmance, aldermanic, ammoniacal, ampicillin, anamnestic, anamorphic, anarchisms, anatomical, androecium, anemically, anglicisms, animalcula, animalcule, anticlimax, antidromic, antiemetic, antimycins, antiracism, ascogonium, astronomic, becharming, biodynamic, buckraming, cairngorms, calamining, calamondin, calcimined, calcimines, calmodulin, calumniate, calumnious, campaigned, campaigner, campaniles, campesinos, carcinomas, catamenial, centesimal, centigrams, centralism, ceremonial, chairmaned, chairwoman, chairwomen, chambering, chamfering, chamoising, champaigns, champignon, championed, charminger, charmingly, chauvinism, chimpanzee, chiromancy, chloramine, chromaffin, chromatins, cinemagoer, cinematize, cinerarium, clambering, clamminess, clamouring, coadmiring, coassuming, coatimundi, cobalamins, cochairman, cochairmen, cochampion, codominant, cognominal, colemanite, comanaging, combatting, combinable, commanding, compacting, compaction, companions, companying, comparison, comparting, compassing, compassion, complained, complainer, complaints, compliance, compliancy, confirmand, councilman, craniotomy, creaminess, cremations, criminally, criminated, criminates, culminated, culminates, cumulating, cumulation, cyanamides, cysteamine, daunomycin, decimating, decimation, declaiming, demoniacal, dicoumarin, dominances, dormancies, dynamistic, economical, ecumenical, effeminacy, egomaniacs, emaciating, emaciation, emancipate, emittances, encomiasts, enharmonic, exclaiming, fanaticism, feminacies, gentamicin, geomancies, gramicidin, gymnastics, harmonicas, hematinics, hemocyanin, humanistic, hypermanic, iconoclasm, imbalanced, imbalances, immanences, immittance, impactions, impatience, impeaching, impedances, importance, importancy, inharmonic, inimically, innumeracy, insomniacs, intimacies, kanamycins, kinematics, lambencies, lawrencium, lemniscate, luminances, macaronics, macaronies, macedoines, macerating, maceration, machinable, machinated, machinates, machinator, machinists, mackintosh, maculating, maculation, mafficking, magnifical, magnificat, magnificos, maleficent, malignance, malignancy, mammocking, manchineel, mandarinic, maniacally, manicuring, manicurist, manometric, manticores, manuscript, maraschino, marcelling, mascaraing, masculines, massacring, mastodonic, matronymic, mechanical, mechanisms, mechanists, mechanized, mechanizer, mechanizes, mediagenic, medicament, medicating, medication, medicinals, megaphonic, melanistic, menacingly, mendacious, mendicancy, mendicants, mercantile, mescalines, microfauna, microtonal, militances, minacities, mincemeats, misbalance, miscalling, miscaption, miscasting, miscellany, mischances, mischannel, miscreants, misplacing, misspacing, mistracing, monachisms, monarchial, monarchies, monarchism, monarchist, monoacidic, monocarpic, monochasia, monocratic, monomaniac, mordancies, morganatic, morphactin, morticians, mosaicking, muckraking, mudcapping, multichain, municipals, muscadines, muscarines, muscarinic, musicianly, myasthenic, narcissism, naumachiae, naumachias, naumachies, nematicide, nematocide, nicknamers, nicknaming, nomarchies, nonmedical, nonmusical, normalcies, nosocomial, numeracies, numismatic, oceanarium, onomastics, organicism, organismic, pacemaking, pancratium, pantomimic, patronymic, phantasmic, phonematic, pitchwoman, pyromaniac, racemizing, rampancies, reclaiming, rematching, remittance, revanchism, rifampicin, sanctimony, scammonies, scampering, scrambling, semantical, serviceman, shadchanim, simoniacal, stomaching, talismanic, taphonomic, tomcatting, tympanitic, unacademic, uncharming, unclamping, undogmatic, undramatic, unemphatic, unicameral, unromantic, volcanisms, vulcanisms.

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