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maniack

maniack is the obsolete form of maniac.

Meaning of maniac

Noun

maniac (plural maniacs)

  1. An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania.
    • She was driving like a maniac.
  2. (figuratively) A fanatic, a person with an obsession.
    • He's a manga maniac.

Forms of maniack

pluralmaniacks

Questions about maniack

What is maniack the obsolete form of?
Maniack is the obsolete form of maniac.

Words near maniack in the dictionary

  1. maniacal
  2. maniacality
  3. maniacally
  4. Maniaci
  5. Maniacis
  6. maniack
  7. maniacks
  8. maniaclike
  9. maniacs
  10. maniaphobe
  11. maniaphobes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maniack (page history and authors); maniac (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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