All maniac synonyms
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M m noun maniac
- overenthusiastic β full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- bigot β If you describe someone as a bigot, you mean that they are bigoted.
- freak β a fleck or streak of color.
- lunatic β (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- fanatic β a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.
- loony β lunatic; insane.
- zealot β a person who shows zeal.
- fiend β Satan; the devil.
- psycho β a psychopathic or psychotic person.
- psychopath β a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- kook β an eccentric, strange, or foolish person.
- screwball β Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
- crackpot β If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- nut β the goddess of the sky, sometimes shown as a cow bearing Ra on her back and the stars on her underside.
- flake β fake2 (defs 2, 3).
- loon β a crazy or simple-minded person.
- fan β an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.: a baseball fan; a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.
- schizoid β Psychology. of or relating to a personality disorder marked by dissociation, passivity, withdrawal, inability to form warm social relationships, and indifference to praise or criticism.
- fruitcake β a rich cake containing dried or candied fruit, nuts, etc.
- bedlamite β a lunatic; insane person
- nutcase β a deranged person; lunatic.
- enthusiast β A person who is highly interested in a particular activity or subject.
- madperson β (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
adjective maniac
- crackbrained β insane, idiotic, or crazy
- hacked β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- psychiatric β the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- bananas β crazy (esp in the phrase go bananas)
- deranged β Someone who is deranged behaves in a wild and uncontrolled way, often as a result of mental illness.
- unhinged β having no hinge or hinges, or with the hinges removed: an unhinged gate.
- smoking β the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- out to lunch β a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
- moonstruck β mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed.
- around the bend β to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
- bent out of shape β very angry, upset, or agitated
- off one's rocker β Also called runner. one of the curved pieces on which a cradle or a rocking chair rocks.
- out of one's head β the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- aper β a person who apes, a mimic
- furious β full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
- nutsy β nutty (defs 3, 4).
- steamed β heated by or heating with steam: a steam radiator.
- corybantic β frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- mental β of or relating to the chin.
- demented β Someone who is demented has a severe mental illness, especially Alzheimer's disease.
- loco β locoweed.
- whacko β wacko.