monomaniac

adjective

Definition of monomaniacnext
as in monomaniacal

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  1. obsessed
  2. fixated
  3. frantic
Adjective
  • Some in the Mar-a-Lago orbit were obsessed with details, but, as one outside adviser put it, were more obsessed about booking a lunch or dinner, hoping to bump into the president-elect to lobby for jobs.
    Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • And these years in Philadelphia proved troubled ones: As the city’s industrial life was hollowed out, Lynch became obsessed with its factory smokestacks and pervasive smog.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of obsessed
Adjective
  • Cross My Heart, out Jan. 14, follows Rosie, a heart transplant recipient, who becomes fixated on her donor’s husband.
    Megan Collins, People.com, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Key members of India’s foreign policy elite remain fixated on the United States’ relationship with Pakistan during the Cold War and fear its renewal.
    Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
Definition of fixated
Adjective
  • McConnell remembers strangers stopping in the road to pray for the boy before he was rushed to Children’s Hospital New Orleans after a police officer assured the frantic mother that her son was still alive.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The quick minute-and-a-half clip introduces us to a frantic Mullen, who's testing different codes on a safe to try and break into it.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of frantic
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