Meanings
comparative more monomaniacal · superlative most monomaniacal
- Of or relating to a monomaniac.
‘The typical Zweig story,’ the critic William Deresiewicz notes, cooling to his subject in an afterword, ‘is a tale of monomaniacal passion set loose amid the veiled, upholstered civility of the Austrian bourgeoisie, the class into which Zweig was born.’
2010 January 28, Michael Hofmann, quoting William Deresiewicz, “Vermicular Dither”, in London Review of Books, volume 32, number 02, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveobsessed with a single subject or idea
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*men-
- Proto-Hellenic*mónwos
- Ancient Greekμόνος (mónos)
- Ancient Greekμονο- (mono-)
- Englishmono-
- Proto-Indo-European*men-
- Proto-Indo-European*mn̥yétor
- Proto-Hellenic*məňňómai
- Ancient Greekμαίνομαι (maínomai)
- Ancient Greekμᾰνῐ́ᾱ (mănĭ́ā)
- Ancient Greekμανιακός (maniakós)
- Late Latinmaniacu
- Frenchmaniaque
- Englishmaniac
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishmaniacal
- Englishmonomaniacal
Translations
Swedish monoman
- monomanTranslations
Cite this entry
monomaniacal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monomaniacal
“monomaniacal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monomaniacal. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “monomaniacal,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monomaniacal.
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