monomaniac

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for monomaniac
Adjective
  • Your monomaniacal focus creates your monopoly.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the show, Hartley is a 15-year-old girl from a nearby town whom Gein becomes obsessed with, abducts and later kills.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Prom Night Three years after an obsessed teacher killed her family, Donna Keppel has gotten her life back together enough to attend her Senior Prom.
    Caitlin White, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Writer-director Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship, which cast him as a lonely guy who befriends, alienates, then becomes fixated on a cool neighbor (Paul Rudd), has some great moments but falters midway through due to a predictable plot.
    Judy Berman, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The idea of clothes — especially expensive clothes — looking good on the wearer shouldn’t be a novel idea, yet recent years have seen some designers become fixated with expressing artistic creativity or generating shock value, rather than designing for wider appeal.
    Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Keira Knightley stars in the movie as Lo, in a frantic frowning mode reminiscent of her performance in Netflix’s spy thriller Black Doves.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • After a long summer and a frantic preseason, opening night is finally here for the 2025-26 Detroit Red Wings season.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Monomaniac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monomaniac. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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