Manic

3 definitions found

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

  Manic \Man"ic\, a. [Gr. maniko`s mad, frenzied.] (Med.)
     Of or pert. to, or characterized by, mania, or excitement;
     frenzied; as, with manic energy.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  manic
       adj : 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" [syn: {frenzied}]

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

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "manic":
     abnormal, agog, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter,
     bereft of reason, brainsick, bursting, carried away, crackbrained,
     cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented,
     deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, ebullient,
     effervescent, excited, exhilarated, fired, flighty, hallucinated,
     high, hopped up, impassioned, inflamed, insane, irrational,
     keyed up, lathered up, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, mazed, mental,
     mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, moved, non compos,
     non compos mentis, not all there, not right, odd, of unsound mind,
     off, psycho, queer, ready to burst, reasonless, roused, senseless,
     sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, steamed up, stimulated,
     stirred, stirred up, strange, tetched, thrilled, tingling, tingly,
     touched, turned-on, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled,
     unsound, wandering, whipped up, witless, worked up, wrought up,
     yeasty