MONOMANIACAL Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

monomaniacal

adjective

as in obsessed

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Recent Examples of monomaniacal These moments pile up and ultimately converge, paying heartwarming tribute to how even the most monomaniacal movie projects necessitate collaboration. — Marshall Shaffer, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2026 When Ahab first speaks to the crew about Moby Dick, his diabolical charisma soon infects the men who, apart from Starbuck, enthusiastically join him in his monomaniacal crusade. — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026 Abdul-Mateen’s performance is perpetually glum, but insufficiently monomaniacal, lowering the stakes throughout. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2026 Paul Atreides in Dune, Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme — these are all characters defined by otherworldly gifts, monomaniacal drive, and a cold-blooded disregard for the concerns of others. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026 Canty and Lally churn with monomaniacal might, spurring Lewis to play bold, declarative melodies that Piorg answers with force. — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 19 Feb. 2026 This monomaniacal and thoroughly individualized focus turned mindfulness into yet another personalized optimization ritual. — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026 As the name suggests, looksmaxxers share a monomaniacal commitment to improving their physical appearance. — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026 Until the cycle is broken, the monomaniacal goal of Bills Mafia will be to outlast the Chiefs in the postseason. — Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025

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Adjective

These demands are not likely to ease as football becomes more obsessed with physicality, so, from an Arsenal perspective, the importance of not overloading their right-backs only heightens.

— Art de Roché, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
The victim’s mother, 60-year-old Adra Pegues, said the killer recently went on a first date with her daughter and then became obsessed with Davis, who wasn’t interested in a second date.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of obsessed

Adjective

Their take on the story of Agamemnon’s obsessive daughter — fixated on revenge since his death at the hands of her mother, Clytemnestra — should be something fierce to behold.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026
Like all of hip-hop’s early heroes, Flash is fixated on the genre’s history—righting its wrongs, fighting a headwind of faulty tellings over the years.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of fixated

Adjective

Around her, Youth builds an impressively frantic web of relationships and plot snarls.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Stocks tied to the AI boom slumped on Monday after the three biggest AI bosses warned the frantic pace of model development needed to be slowed.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of frantic

Adjective

The panel's decision comes even as the Supreme Court is already considering the same case, which is part of a frenzied legal rush as states are beginning to send out mail ballots for this fall's midterm elections.

— NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
With so much of the frenzied James Bond interest centered on who might be taking over from Daniel Craig as 007, something many believe is going to be announced imminently, the matter of the all-important script has largely been ignored.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of frenzied

Adjective

Some 5,000 actresses were considered amid months of hysterical media prognosticating on who would wear the invisible halo next.

— Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
At the same time, Fjord is nonjudgmental in its depiction of a blossoming romance between two girls, and protesters who come to support the Romanian family are shown as hysterical too, spray-painting warnings about Satan outside the local school.

— Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of hysterical

Adjective

Our simple equation, for example, has the solutions and , which are irrational; their digits begin and keep going forever without repeating.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026
So the strongest performers tend to resist hardest, and their response is not irrational.

— Pankaj Prasoon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of irrational

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