manic

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: man=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

manic, a. [Gr. maniko`s mad, frenzied.].

 Of or pert. to, or characterized by, mania, or excitement; frenzied; as, with manic energy.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

manic, adj. of or affected by mania.

Idiom

manic-depressive Psychol. adj. affected by or relating to a mental disorder with alternating periods of elation and depression.
--n. a person having such a disorder.

Derivative

manically adv.

THESAURUS

manic

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