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maniac in Japanese

maniac in Japanese is 狂人 — maniac means someone who is mentally unstable, especially a person suffering from a mania.

maniac in Japanese

狂人
noun
Pronounced: kyōjin
An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania.

What does "maniac" mean?

  1. noun Someone who is mentally unstable, especially a person suffering from a mania.
    "“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.”"
  2. noun A person who is extremely enthusiastic about something, to an obsessive degree.
  3. noun Short for sex maniac.
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maniac in a sentence

  • “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.”
  • She was driving like a maniac.

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What is "maniac" in Japanese?
"maniac" in Japanese is 狂人. maniac means: Someone who is mentally unstable, especially a person suffering from a mania.
How do you pronounce 狂人?
"maniac" in Japanese is 狂人, pronounced "kyōjin".
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