manic
IPA: mˈænɪk
noun
- A person exhibiting mania.
- A member of the Manic Street Preachers
adjective
- Of or pertaining to someone who exhibits mania or craziness; wicked.
- (psychiatry) Suffering from mania, the state of an abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
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Examples of "manic" in Sentences
- The song was transformed into a manic.
- It is one of the first manic shooters.
- Britain goes manic on royal pregnancy.
- He was emaciated and laughing manically.
- The advantage of manic love is intensity.
- The manic fiddling style is unmistakable.
- The editing is currently chaotic and manic.
- A manic song that becomes rambunctious near the end.
- I will tell you, though, on what you called manic Monday.
- Then by the end of the set he'd be completely and utterly manic.
- Their eyes glitter with the dreamy, manic light of opium and dravana.
- I'll probably remain manic until it starts to get reader reviews and such.
- FISHER: I like the name manic depression, though, because it describes what it ` s like.
- BARNICIDE: the crime a parent is tempted to commit after being over-exposed to a certain manic purple dinosaur.
- * Barnicide: the crime a parent is tempted to commit after being over-exposed to a certain manic purple dinosaur
- Today's market, maybe more than ever before, is full of short term manic depressives being fed news stories by, more manic depressives.
- "What's kind of a red flag is when it is atypical for the person to talk like this," doing it only when they are in manic cycle but not at other times, she says.
- To this condition, Kraeplin give the name manic depression -- a term that although still in use, has been supplanted by the category of "bipolar disorder" in official psychiatric nomenclature.
- And the word manic depression was never attached to what was wrong with him because he had a psychiatrist who didn't believe in it, thought if you put a name on things that it made it worse, and I didn't know it.
- But to me he's more interesting as the translator of two peculiarly great and problematic novelists: the Frenchman Georges Perec, whose work is characterized by a manic concern for form, and the Albanian Ismail Kadare, whose work Bellos translates not from the original Albanian, but from French translations supervised by Kadare.