Crossword clues for megalomaniac
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1882 (n.), 1883 (adj.), from megalomania (q.v.).\nThe megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. [Bertrand Russell, "The Conquest of Happiness"]
Wiktionary
n. One affected with or exhibiting megalomania
WordNet
n. a pathological egotist
Wikipedia
"Megalomaniac" is a song by industrial rock band KMFDM from the album commonly referred to as Symbols. It was released in various forms in late 1997 and early 1998. A 7" vinyl version was released in 2009.
The song was also used in the film Mortal Kombat: Annihilation in the end credits and in the 1998 racing video game Test Drive 5.
"Megalomaniac" is a song by the American rock band Incubus, from their 2004 album A Crow Left of the Murder... It was released as a single in December 2003, and eventually reached the top of Billboards Modern Rock Tracks, where it stayed for a six-week period.
Usage examples of "megalomaniac".
I thought you were too tough to let a little thing like a megalomaniac megacorporation intent on murder get you upset.
He decided that the rogue controller was a megalomaniac, some demented genius who trapped unsuspecting prods in his illegal designs.
The Sultan, thought Hamid-Jones, must be a megalomaniac to think that he had been foreordained by Allah to become the first Caliph in a thousand years!
She allowed herself a little chuckle, wondering what Neanderthals called megalomaniac thoughts.
He came from a long line of manic depressives, megalomaniacs, and megalomaniac depressives.
The admiral was in New York City, prepared to tell anyone who would listen that Brigadier General Charles de Gaulle not only was a megalomaniac but had no legal authority whatever for declaring himself the head of the French government.
They were nothing now but two scurrying creatures caught in the web of the megalomaniacs, the power seekers, mice in the walls of an inconceivably vast social order.
Weak megalomaniacs were placed in charge and given absolute powerso long as they did what they are told if called upon.
I don’t want to have them worry about insane megalomaniacs who think being tough entitles them to live off the backs of ordinary decent working people.
Also, the isolation and loneliness of the Lords made them megalomaniacs, natural when you consider that each played the part of a little god and came to believe in his role.
Once you accept that assumption, that certain people are intrinsically more advanced than others, then you end up with megalomaniacs at one end of the spectrum and dangerously frightened people at the other.
Weak megalomaniacs were placed in charge and given absolute power—so long as they did what they are told if called upon.
That financial megalomaniac couldn't stand the possibility that a small group of benevolent misfits might replace his man with another who could cut off his pipeline to millions and probably would.