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A megalomaniac is a person who power over others and enjoys having it — someone whose sense of their own importance has swollen past anything the facts support. It works as a noun ('the company is run by a megalomaniac') and as an adjective ('his megalomaniac schemes', 'a megalomaniac dictator'). Most often it is an insult rather than a diagnosis: aimed at dictators, at bosses who must control every small decision, at anyone whose ambition has turned into a need to dominate. Cartoon villains who want to rule the world are the standard picture, and the word does carry a faint comic-book flavour, so it can be used half-jokingly about a friend who takes over the group chat. But it also has a real clinical background — describing someone with delusions of , who genuinely believes they are far greater than they are — and that history is what gives the insult its bite. It is a strong word; used seriously about a real person, it says their judgement cannot be trusted.
誇大狂的人、權力狂(罵人自大到病態、控制欲極強)
組成Either megalomania + -ac (the ending that names the person who has a condition), or read straight through as megalo- ('great, large') + -maniac ('a person mad about something'). Either way: someone mad about being great.
同家族的字
- megalomaniathe condition itself
- maniacsame -maniac, from Greek mania 'madness'
- kleptomaniacsame -maniac, with klepto- 'stealing'
- insomniacsame -ac ending naming the person with the condition
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
megalomaniacnoun/ˌmɛɡəloʊˈmeɪniæk/
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One affected with or exhibiting megalomania.
- '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.'
- Mr. Big paused. Bond saw that his great yellow eyes were wide, as if he saw visions. He's a raving megalomaniac, thought Bond. And all the more dangerous because of it.
megalomaniacadj/ˌmɛɡəloʊˈmeɪniæk/
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Of, exhibiting, or affected with megalomania.
- Often, for good measure, Hitler is given as an example of a megalomaniac person. So, for our convenience, Hitler personifies the illness called megalomania[…]
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。