'Manic' definitions:
Definition of 'manic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason; "a frenzied attack"; "a frenzied mob"; "the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity" [syn: frenzied, manic]
Definition of 'Manic'
From: GCIDE
- Manic \Man"ic\, a. [Gr. maniko`s mad, frenzied.] (Med.) Of or pert. to, or characterized by, mania, or excitement; frenzied; as, with manic energy. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'manic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormal,
- agog,
- aquiver,
- aroused,
- atingle,
- atwitter,
- bereft of reason,
- brainsick,
- bursting,
- carried away,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- disoriented,
- distraught,
- ebullient,
- effervescent,
- excited,
- exhilarated,
- fired,
- flighty,
- hallucinated,
- high,
- hopped up,
- impassioned,
- inflamed,
- insane,
- irrational,
- keyed up,
- lathered up,
- loco,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- moved,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- not all there,
- not right,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- psycho,
- queer,
- ready to burst,
- reasonless,
- roused,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- steamed up,
- stimulated,
- stirred,
- stirred up,
- strange,
- tetched,
- thrilled,
- tingling,
- tingly,
- touched,
- turned-on,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- wandering,
- whipped up,
- witless,
- worked up,
- wrought up,
- yeasty