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Mad Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Mad? [adj] (informal) roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark" [adj] affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [adj] marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [adj] very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Mad: angry \| brainsick \| crazy \| delirious \| demented \| distracted \| disturbed \| excited \| foolish \| frantic \| harebrained \| huffy \| insane \| sick \| sore \| unbalanced \| unhinged \| unrestrained \| wild Related Terms \| Find terms related to Mad: a transient madness \| abandoned \| abnormal \| absurd \| accident-prone \| acrimonious \| affronted \| amok \| anarchic \| anger \| angered \| angriness \| angry \| apish \| ardent \| ardently \| asinine \| avid \| bacchic \| balmy \| bananas \| barmy \| batty \| befooled \| beguiled \| bellowing \| bereft of reason \| berserk \| besotted \| blustering \| blusterous \| blustery \| bonkers \| brainless \| brainsick \| breakneck \| browned-off \| buffoonish \| bughouse \| bugs \| careless \| carried away \| certifiable \| chaotic \| childish \| choleric \| cockeyed \| corybantic \| crackbrained \| cracked \| crackers \| craze \| crazed \| crazy \| credulous \| cross \| cuckoo \| daffy \| daft \| dazed \| delirious \| deluded \| dement \| demented \| demoniac \| deprived of reason \| derange \| deranged \| desperate \| desperately \| devil-may-care \| Dionysiac \| disoriented \| distract \| distracted \| distraught \| dizzy \| doting \| dotty \| drive insane \| drive mad \| dumb \| eager \| ecstatic \| enrage \| enraged \| enragement \| enraptured \| enthusiastic \| enthusiastically \| exasperated \| excitedly \| extravagant \| fallacious \| fanatical \| fantastic \| fatuitous \| fatuous \| feral \| ferocious \| fervent \| fervently \| fervid \| feverishly \| fierce \| flaky \| flighty \| fond \| fool \| foolhardy \| foolheaded \| foolish \| frantic \| frenetic \| frenzied \| frenziedly \| frenzy \| fuddled \| fulminating \| fuming \| furious \| furiously \| fury \| futile \| gaga \| goofy \| grapes of wrath \| gulled \| haggard \| hallucinated \| harum-scarum \| hasty \| headlong \| heat \| heated \| heedless \| hellish \| hog-wild \| hooked \| hotheaded \| howling \| hurried \| hysterical \| hysterically \| idiotic \| ill-advised \| ill-considered \| imbecile \| immature \| impetuous \| imprudent \| in a transport \| in hysterics \| inane \| incense \| incensed \| indignant \| indiscreet \| inept \| infatuated \| infuriate \| infuriated \| infuriation \| insane \| insensate \| intoxicated \| invalid \| irate \| irateness \| ire \| ireful \| irrational \| irritated \| keen \| kooky \| like crazy \| like mad \| like one possessed \| livid \| loco \| loony \| loopy \| lunatic \| madcap \| madden \| maddened \| madding \| madly \| maenadic \| make mad \| maniac \| maniacal \| manic \| maudlin \| mazed \| mental \| mentally deficient \| mentally ill \| meshuggah \| mindless \| moon-struck \| moronic \| non compos \| non compos mentis \| nonrational \| nonsensical \| not all there \| not right \| nuts \| nutty \| odd \| of unsound mind \| off \| offended \| orgasmic \| orgastic \| orgiastic \| outraged \| overeager \| overenthusiastic \| overzealous \| pandemoniac \| passionate \| pissed \| pissed-off \| possessed \| potty \| precipitant \| precipitate \| precipitous \| preposterous \| provoked \| psycho \| psychotic \| puerile \| queer \| rabid \| rage \| raging \| ramping \| ranting \| rash \| ravening \| raving \| raving mad \| ravished \| reasonless \| reckless \| riled up \| rip-roaring \| roaring \| round the bend \| running mad \| running wild \| saeva indignatio \| sappy \| screwy \| send mad \| senseless \| sentimental \| shatter \| sick \| silly \| slap-bang \| slapdash \| sophistic \| sore \| soreness \| stark-mad \| stark-raving mad \| stark-staring mad \| storming \| stormy \| strange \| stupid \| tempestuous \| tetched \| thoughtless \| ticked off \| touched \| transported \| troublous \| tumultuous \| turbulent \| twisted \| umbrage \| unbalance \| unbalanced \| uncontrollable \| unhinge \| unhinged \| unreasonable \| unsane \| unsettled \| unsound \| unwise \| uproarious \| vials of wrath \| violent \| violently \| wacky \| wandering \| wanton \| waxy \| wet \| wild \| wild-eyed \| wild-looking \| wildly \| witless \| worked up \| wrath \| wrathful \| wrathfulness \| wrathy \| wroth \| wrought-up \| zealous See Also \| Mad In Webster's Dictionary \Mad\, n. [Cf. W. mad a male child, a boy.] 1. A slattern. [Prov. Eng.] 2. The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy. --Shak. \Mad\, obs. p. p. of {Made}. --Chaucer. \Mad\, a. [Compar. {Madder}; superl. {Maddest}.] [AS. gem?d, gem[=a]d, mad; akin to OS. gem?d foolish, OHG. gameit, Icel. mei?a to hurt, Goth. gam['a]ids weak, broken. ?.] 1. Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane. I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad. --Shak. 2. Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform. It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. --Jer. 1. 88. And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. --Acts xxvi. 11. 3. Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. ``Mad demeanor.'' --Milton. Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. --Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. --Jowett (Thucyd.). 4. Extravagant; immoderate. ``Be mad and merry.'' --Shak. ``Fetching mad bounds.'' --Shak. 5. Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog. 6. Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person. [Colloq.] 7. Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle. [Colloq.] {Like mad}, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to run like mad. --L'Estrange. {To run mad}. (a) To become wild with excitement. (b) To run wildly about under the influence of hydrophobia; to become affected with hydrophobia. {To run mad after}, to pursue under the influence of infatuation or immoderate desire. ``The world is running mad after farce.'' --Dryden. \Mad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Madded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Madding}.] To make mad or furious; to madden. Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would have madded me. --Shak. \Mad\, v. i. To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See {Madding}. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest. --Wyclif (Acts). \Mad\, n. [AS. ma?a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and prob. to E. moth.] (Zo["o]l.) An earthworm. [Written also {made}.]

Mad Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mad?

[adj] (informal) roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"
[adj] affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
[adj] marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"
[adj] very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"

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Mad In Webster's Dictionary

\Mad\, n. [Cf. W. mad a male child, a boy.]
1. A slattern. [Prov. Eng.]

2. The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies;
   and hence, sometimes, any fairy. --Shak.


\Mad\, obs.
p. p. of {Made}. --Chaucer.


\Mad\, a. [Compar. {Madder}; superl. {Maddest}.] [AS. gem?d,
gem[=a]d, mad; akin to OS. gem?d foolish, OHG. gameit, Icel.
mei?a to hurt, Goth. gam['a]ids weak, broken. ?.]
1. Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.

         I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of
         griefs would make men mad.            --Shak.

2. Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason;
   inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or
   appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad
   against political reform.

         It is the land of graven images, and they are mad
         upon their idols.                     --Jer. 1. 88.

         And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted
         them even unto strange cities.        --Acts xxvi.
                                               11.

3. Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing
   distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme
   rashness. ``Mad demeanor.'' --Milton.

         Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years
         of peace.                             --Franklin.

         The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. --Jowett
                                               (Thucyd.).

4. Extravagant; immoderate. ``Be mad and merry.'' --Shak.
   ``Fetching mad bounds.'' --Shak.

5. Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the
   lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia;
   rabid; as, a mad dog.

6. Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
   [Colloq.]

7. Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
   [Colloq.]

{Like mad}, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to
   run like mad. --L'Estrange.

{To run mad}.
   (a) To become wild with excitement.
   (b) To run wildly about under the influence of
       hydrophobia; to become affected with hydrophobia.

{To run mad after}, to pursue under the influence of
   infatuation or immoderate desire. ``The world is running
   mad after farce.'' --Dryden.


\Mad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Madded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Madding}.]
To make mad or furious; to madden.

      Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would
      have madded me.                          --Shak.


\Mad\, v. i.
To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See {Madding}. [Archaic]
--Chaucer.

      Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest.
                                               --Wyclif
                                               (Acts).


\Mad\, n. [AS. ma?a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and
prob. to E. moth.] (Zo["o]l.)
An earthworm. [Written also {made}.]

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