MEGALOMANIACS Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

megalomaniacs

noun

plural of megalomaniac

as in jerks

a person who believes that he or she has unlimited power or importance Their CEO is a real megalomaniac who feels she can partake in any luxury with the company's profits.

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Recent Examples of megalomaniacs She’s covered enough megalomaniacs to recognize that someone like Stensen won’t spend billions of dollars building an underground colony that will never be used. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026 The Houthis are led by a family of clerical megalomaniacs who have been prophesying apocalyptic war since the early 2000s. — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Lee and his Burning co-writer Oh Jung-mi resist what might have been the first instinct of many filmmakers by refusing to make Ye-ji and Sang-woo overly patronizing rich jerks.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026
The Ars OpenForum is a place for readers to ask questions, compare notes, argue (without being jerks to each other), and go down all sorts of rabbit holes.

— Eric Bangeman, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of jerks

Noun

The news comes on the heels of the stunning announcement last week from OpenAI that its own model had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2026
Spring 2026 included trompe-l’œil designs including boots that looked like heels layered with socks, alongside other designs.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of heels

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The excessiveness of Ken Russell, Joe Coleman, Tasha Tudor, clowns, migraines, Priscilla Presley, and the Winchester Mystery House.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Circus of the Damned — An evil ringmaster tries to restore his cursed carnival with a new cast of clowns.

— Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of clowns

Noun

The smart kids, the shy ones, the jokers and the loners — every one of them is caught in the pyroclastic flow of adolescence, every minute a negotiation between fitting in and standing out.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
The jokers Toth and Jackson, bless them, keep things endearing and funny.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of jokers

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