WIGGED-OUT Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

Definition of wigged-out

as in frantic

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verb

past tense of wig (out), slang

as in cracked

to yield to mental or emotional stress with her claustrophobia, it wouldn't take a day for her to wig out on a submarine

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Adjective

Fulham’s current rest-defence shape leads to frantic back-tracking defending, while the opposition can pull the centre-back partnership across the pitch with passes in behind and switches into the channels.

— Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Booth was in Toronto with his wife to attend an international convention for the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) when delegates from New York suddenly received frantic calls and left the meeting.

— Kaanita Iyer, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of frantic

Verb

Authorities have also warned of potential further collapse around the glacier on Langtang Lirung mountain in Nepal, which cracked and broke off, triggering the August 26 landslide and flooding.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Michael Busch cracked an RBI single off Calvin Faucher in the sixth, before Kyle Stowers’ home run – a solo shot and his 19th of the season – in the seventh pulled Miami to within 6-5.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of cracked

Adjective

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
This comic novel is set in a hysterical vision of the year 2045, in which what was once the United States has been split apart by a civil war between liberals and a MAGA-like rebel group.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of hysterical

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Thieves also are increasingly targeting museum items with gold and other precious metals that can be melted down and with gemstones that can be removed and sold, the agency said in a report in August.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026
Jeweled and metal goods have increasingly become a target of theft because they can be melted down or broken down into parts.

— Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of melted down

Adjective

Dogan deliberately arranged for Salah’s medical to take place in the metropolis of Istanbul, over 500 miles (nearly 900km) from Trabzon, so the Egyptian could see how frenzied the welcome would be.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The frenzied bear pummeled him repeatedly but couldn’t roll him because the pack was caught in the bushes.

— Jan Thacker, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of frenzied

Adjective

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, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

Definition of monomaniacal

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