maniac

4 definitions found

maniac - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

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

maniac - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  maniac
      adj 1: wildly disordered; "a maniacal frenzy" [syn: maniacal,
             maniac(p)]
      n 1: an insane person [syn: lunatic, madman, maniac]
      2: a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm
         for something

maniac - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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