wild-eyed
Looking completely crazed
Wild-eyed describes someone whose eyes are wide open in a way that suggests alarm, madness, or fanatical intensity.
The look conveys being out of control or unhinged: a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist, He burst through the door, wild-eyed and breathless.
Extended to ideas or schemes, it suggests reckless impracticality: wild-eyed proposals that ignore economic reality.
Abnormally elevated, agitated
- unhingedMentally or emotionally unstable
- crazedWildly out of control
- berserkWildly, violently uncontrolled
- deliriousMentally unhinged temporarily
feverish · frantic · rabid · deranged · overwrought · agitated · hysterical · panicked
Pursuer of noble principles
- dreamerOne given to fantasies
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- utopianImpractically perfect in conception
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
radical · zealot · fanatic · evangelist · firebrand · crusader · extremist · romantic
Penetrating or very sharp
- burningCombustion in progress
- blazingBurning very brightly
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
- ferventIntensely and sincerely felt
passionate · zealous · fanatical · fervid · glowing · smoldering · ardent · heated
Deeply startled or appalled
- alarmedFeeling sudden fear
- terrifiedExtremely frightened
- frightenedExperiencing sudden fear
- spookedFrightened into alertness
panicked · fearful · aghast · horror-struck · petrified · shaken · traumatized · haunted
manic
Abnormally elevated, agitated
- unhingedMentally or emotionally unstable
- crazedWildly out of control
- berserkWildly, violently uncontrolled
delirious · feverish · frantic · rabid · deranged · overwrought · agitated · hysterical · panicked · desperate
idealist
Pursuer of noble principles
- dreamerOne given to fantasies
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- utopianImpractically perfect in conception
revolutionary · radical · zealot · fanatic · evangelist · firebrand · crusader · extremist · romantic · quixotic
piercing
Penetrating or very sharp
fervent · passionate · zealous · fanatical · fervid · glowing · smoldering · ardent · heated · inflamed
shocked
Deeply startled or appalled
- alarmedFeeling sudden fear
- terrifiedExtremely frightened
- frightenedExperiencing sudden fear
spooked · panicked · fearful · aghast · horror-struck · petrified · shaken · traumatized · haunted · hunted