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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | maniacal |
| Synonyms: | berserk, delirious, frenzied, fuming, irrational, mad, phrenetic, ranting, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | rave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be very enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | be delighted, be excited, be mad about, be wild about, bubble*, carry on about, cry up, effervesce, enthuse, fall all over, go on about, gush, make a to-do, praise, rhapsodize |
| Antonyms: | denounce, discourage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beside oneself |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a panic |
| Synonyms: | agitated, anxious, berserk, bothered, carried away, crazed, delirious, demented, distraught, distressed, frantic, frenetic, hysterical, insane, mad, out of one's mind, out of one's wit, overwrought, rattled, raving, shook up, unbalanced, unhinged, upset, very upset, worked-up |
| Main Entry: | crazed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insane |
| Synonyms: | berserk, certifiable, crazy, demented, deranged, frenzied, hysterical, lunatic, mad, maniac, manic, mental*, out of one's mind, psychopathic, raving |
| Antonyms: | sane |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delirious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally imbalanced |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, bewildered, confused, crazed, crazy, demented, deranged, deviant, deviate, disarranged, disordered, distracted, disturbed, flipped, flipped out, hallucinatory, incoherent, insane, irrational, lightheaded, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, manic, off one's head, out of one's head, out of one's skull, rambling, raving, unhinged, unreasonable, unsettled, wandering |
| Antonyms: | balanced, collected, normal, sane |
| Main Entry: | delirium |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | madness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ardor, dementia, derangement, ecstasy, enthusiasm, fervor, fever, frenzy, furor, fury, hallucination, hysteria, insanity, lunacy, mania, passion, rage, raving, transport, zeal |
| Antonyms: | balance, calmness, saneness |
| Main Entry: | distraught |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset, worked-up |
| Synonyms: | addled, agitated, anxious, beside oneself, bothered, concerned, confused, crazed, crazy, discomposed, distracted, distrait, distressed, flustered, frantic, harassed, hysterical, in a panic, like a chicken with its head cut off, mad, muddled, nonplussed, nuts, out of one's mind, overwrought, perturbed, rattled, raving, shook up, thrown, tormented, troubled, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, wild, worried |
| Notes: | distrait means 'absent-minded as a result of apprehension, worry, etc.' while distraught means 'agitated' and 'bewildered, distracted' |
| Antonyms: | calm, gladdened, happy, pleased, untroubled |
| Main Entry: | fanatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, bugged, burning*, contumacious, credulous, devoted, dogmatic, domineering, enthusiastic, erratic, extreme, fervent, feverish, fiery, frenzied, headstrong, high on, immoderate, impassioned, impulsive, incorrigible, infatuated, mad, monomaniacal, narrow-minded, nuts for, obsessed, obsessive, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, passionate, possessed, prejudiced, rabid, radical, raving, single-minded, stubborn, turned on, unruly, violent, visionary, wild, willful, zealous |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, dispassionate, impartial, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, brutish, cruel, cutthroat, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, flipped, frightening, furious, horrible, howling, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, tigerish, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
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