megalomaniac

English

Etymology

From megalomania +‎ -ac.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɛɡəloʊˈmeɪniæk/
• Rhymes: -eɪniæk

Noun

megalomaniac (plural megalomaniacs)

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

     '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: megalòman m, megalòmana f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 誇大狂／夸大狂 (zh) (kuādàkuáng)

• 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 m, megalòmana f
• 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)