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IELTS BNC: 14885 COCA: 15044

maniac

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
maniac /ˈmeɪniˌæk/ noun
plural maniacs
maniac
/ˈmeɪniˌæk/
noun
plural maniacs
Learner's definition of MANIAC
[count]
: someone who is violent and mentally ill疯子;精神病人
informal : a person who behaves in a very wild way行为极其粗野的人
informal : a person who is extremely enthusiastic about something对…极端狂热的人

— maniac

adjective, always used before a noun [more maniac; most maniac]

— maniacal

/məˈnajəkəl/ adjective [more maniacal; most maniacal]

— maniacally

/məˈnajəkli/ adverb
IELTS BNC: 14885 COCA: 15044

maniac

noun

ma·​ni·​ac ˈmā-nē-ˌak How to pronounce maniac (audio)
1
2
: a person characterized by an inordinate or ungovernable enthusiasm for something

Example Sentences

He's a complete maniac when he's playing football. they should permanently put away the maniac who is responsible for these kidnappings
Recent Examples on the Web Being Black didn’t inoculate me from being a maniac. Helena Andrews-dyer, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022 These days, Gardner is no longer frightened of Chucky — even if the little maniac is still capable of giving her an occasional scare. Clark Collis, EW.com, 19 July 2022 While Max was using her mind as bait to distract Vecna in the Upside Down, the delusional maniac Jason Carver crushes her cassette tape player while fighting with Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin) to bring her out of the trance. Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 5 July 2022 But the hottest looks — if cosplaying attendees are any indication — were simpler, rougher and makeshift, the kind of thing any cost-conscious maniac in a garage could scramble together. Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022 The haunted house will recreate some of the most iconic scenes from Halloween as guests make their way through his dilapidated home, trying to avoid becoming one of his victims in the knife-wielding maniac’s relentless and bloody campaign of terror. Simon Thompson, Forbes, 8 June 2022 The film follows Jamie (Shipka), whose mom, Pam (Bowen), is terrorized by the resurgence of the Sweet Sixteen Killer — a masked maniac that slaughtered a group of teenage girls in the 1980s. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2022 Get a grip on your triskaidekaphobia and revisit this seminal 1980 slasher flick about oversexed young camp counselors and the knife- and -ax-wielding homicidal maniac who hates them. Matt Cooperlistings Coordinator, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022 Esso left off in the 2030s where Rhia is now going to uni and is facing a whole new host of challenges, both personally and with upper world and a maniac on the loose, who’s trying to kill her and has ambitions on conquering the multiverses himself. Rayna Reid, Essence, 20 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Late Latin maniacus maniacal, from Greek maniakos, from mania

First Known Use

circa 1763, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of maniac was circa 1763
IELTS BNC: 14885 COCA: 15044
maniac

noun

ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVEsex性愛狂genocidal, homicidal, suicidal種族滅絕狂人;殺人狂;想自殺的瘋子religious宗教狂PREPOSITIONlike a maniac像瘋子一樣He was driving like a maniac.他像個瘋子似的開着車。

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