manic
Use Manic in a sentence
ɪk adjective
pertaining to or affected by mania.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | characterizing, denoting, or affected by mania |
| —n | |
| 2. | a person afflicted with mania |
| [C19: from Greek, from | |
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Manic
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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Word Origin & History
manic
1902, from mania (q.v.) + -ic. The clinical term manic depressive also is from 1902, but manic depression is first attested 1958.
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Medical Dictionary
manic man·ic (mān'ĭk)
adj.
Relating to, affected by, or resembling mania.
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Example sentences
Instead, he seems to have refined his ideas to an almost manic degree.
Lane meets all the challenges of the play, except the challenge to find the terror behind his professional manic mask.
Teenagers are losing their hair, developing manic symptoms over their worries of what the future brings.
In other words, they kept on consuming the milkshake in a manic search for satisfaction.
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