megalomaniac

megalomaniac

English

Etymology

From megalomania +‎ -ac.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪniæk

Noun

megalomaniac (plural megalomaniacs)

1. One affected with or exhibiting megalomania.
   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎:

     'Well, I don't know him well enough yet to say, but I will admit that if he is not a mere bullying megalomaniac, and if what he says is true, then he certainly is in a class by himself.'

Translations

one affected with or exhibiting megalomania

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 誇大狂 (zh) Czech: megaloman m Dutch: grootheidswaanzinnig, megalomaan (nl) Esperanto: megalomaniulo Estonian: suurushull Finnish: suuruudenhullu French: mégalomane (fr) m or f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Größenwahnsinniger m (male), Größenwahnsinnige f (female) Hungarian: megalomániás Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: megaloman (ku) Polish: megaloman (pl) m, megalomanka (pl) f Portuguese: megalomaníaco m Romanian: megaloman (ro) m, megalomană (ro) f Russian: мегаломаньяк (ru) (megalomanʹjak) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: storhetsvansinnig (sv) (person (sv) c) Turkish: megaloman (tr) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Adjective

megalomaniac (comparative more megalomaniac, superlative most megalomaniac)

1. Of, exhibiting, or affected with megalomania.
   • 2013, Jon Huer, Call from the Cave: Our Cruel Nature and Quest for Power, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 241:

     Often, for good measure, Hitler is given as an example of a megalomaniac person. So, for our convenience, Hitler personifies the illness called megalomania […]

Translations

of, exhibiting, or affected with megalomania

Catalan: megalòman Czech: megalomanský Finnish: suuruudenhullu French: mégalomane (fr) German: größenwahnsinnig (de), megaloman (de) Greek: μεγαλομανής (el) m or f (megalomanís) Norwegian: stormannsgal Polish: megalomaniczny Romanian: megaloman (ro) Swedish: storhetsvansinnig (sv) Turkish: megaloman (tr)