Definitions
A wildly reckless, obsessive, or mentally unstable person.
Word origin
From mania + -ac. Borrowed from French maniaque, from Late Latin maniacus, from Ancient Greek μανιακός (maniakós), adjectival form of μανία (manía, “madness”). Compare manic.
Used in a sentence
“She was driving like a maniac.”
“In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate.”
““It gives me the dithers, thinking of the damage that maniac could do if he ever took the headship. He could reinstate the cycle of chosen births, or enact any of a hundred other terrible laws.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Wildly reckless person”6 letters
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