manic

IPA: mˈænɪk

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.

Examples of "manic" in Sentences

I will tell you, though, on what you called manic Monday.
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.