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- pronunciation:
- m
naI
kl
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
marked by wildness, craziness, and violence.
The patient's maniacal stare terrified the nurse and she called for assistance.- synonyms:
- amok, berserk, frenzied, insane, maniac, raving, wild
- similar words:
- crazy, demented, deranged, frantic, furious, mad, psycho, rabid, violent
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| related words: |
crazy, demented, deranged, insane, mad, rabid, violent |
adverb + (adj.)maniacal
almost, hysterically, little
(adj.)maniacal
+ noun
answer,
assault,
attention,
brother,
cackle,
commitment,
detail,
devotion,
disgust,
energy,
ethic,
eye,
flesh,
grin,
hair,
horror,
intelligence,
killer,
laugh,
laughter,
lip,
madman,
officer,
perfectionist,
psychopath,
pursuit,
quest,
rage,
round,
scene,
scheme,
snow,
song,
sound,
stuff,
tic,
vision
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| derivation: |
maniacally (adv.) |
The word maniacal
contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
  More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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