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pyromanic

pyromanic adjective: relating to or exhibiting pyromania.

Adjective

pyromanic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to or exhibiting pyromania.
    • Several pyromanic boys before coming to the Orthogenic School set fires because they so much enjoyed watching the pumps throw streams of water at burning buildings.1954, Bruno Bettelheim, Symbolic wounds: puberty rites and the envious male, page 186

Origin of pyromanic

From pyromania + -ic.

Questions about pyromanic

What does pyromanic mean?
Pyromanic means relating to or exhibiting pyromania.
What part of speech is pyromanic?
Pyromanic is an adjective.

Words near pyromanic in the dictionary

  1. pyromaniac
  2. pyromaniacal
  3. pyromaniacally
  4. pyromaniacs
  5. pyromanias
  6. pyromanic
  7. pyromantic
  8. pyromantics
  9. pyromechanical
  10. pyromechanism
  11. pyromechanisms

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