Maniac

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maniac \Ma"ni*ac\, a. [F. maniaque. See {Mania}.]
     Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect;
     affected with mania; mad.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  maniac \ma"ni*ac\, n.
     A raving lunatic; a madman.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  maniac
       adj : wildly disordered; "a maniacal frenzy" [syn: {maniacal}, {maniac(p)}]
       n : an insane person [syn: {lunatic}, {madman}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "maniac":
     aliene, batty, bedlamite, berserk, borderline case, crackbrain,
     cracked, crackpot, crazed, crazy, delirious, dement, demented,
     demoniac, deranged, energumen, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fiend,
     flake, fou, frantic, freak, frenetic, frenzied, furious, idiot,
     kook, loon, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, meshuggenah, non compos,
     noncompos, nut, phrenetic, psychopath, psychotic, rabid, raging,
     ranting, raving lunatic, screwball, unsound, violent, weirdo, wild,
     zealot