monomaniac

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for monomaniac
Adjective
  • Tyler Hilton shrugged it off when his 5-year-old daughter, Winnie, became obsessed with a series introduced by a nanny.
    Leena Tailor, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Young then transferred to New York University and became obsessed with the music scene the city had to offer, eventually leaving the school.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The protagonist is an ornery, unemployed academic (Lee Sung-jae) who becomes fixated on a barking dog in his apartment complex, and goes to extreme lengths to silence it.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Anti-fans, as pop-culture scholars have termed them, are similar to hate-watchers: consumers who become fixated on what frustrates them.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But frantic calls to her husband’s doctor’s office resulted in an appointment 10 days later.
    Sara Belcher, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The trailer opens with a frantic DiCaprio grabbing a payphone to call into the rebellion using secret codes.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Monomaniac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monomaniac. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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