manic

Word family

man·ic /ˈmænɪk/ adjectiveadj

1 informalMP behaving in a very anxious or excited way 急切的；激动的

She seemed slightly manic.

她好像有点激动。

Mortimer continued to shoot, a manic grin on his face.

莫蒂默继续射击，脸上带着狰狞的笑。

2. medicalMP relating to a feeling of great happiness or excitement that is part of a mental illness 躁狂的

Examples from the Corpus

manic• There was a manic air to the way he ate his steak and kidney pie.• It was a wide, manic and utterly humourless rictus.• Williams is a comedian with a lot of manic energy.• Lee Evans' as a manic human wind-up toy.• Thus Wish veers dizzily from gleeful whimsy to cosmic angst; from unconfident extroversion to manic introspection.• In manic or bipolar depression, bouts of depression alternate with periods of excessive elation or mania of similar length.• Events unfolded with a manic slowness at first.• Let us take a forceful manic who is displaying and functioning on 500 arbitrary units of life force.• The manic with 500 units of directed purpose has been cleared.

Origin manic

(1900-2000) mania

Chinese

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Corpus

BNC: 14704 COCA: 13135

manic

Feeling interested and excited: interested, excited, alive...

Mentally ill: bipolar, certifiable, confused...