Mad

/ˈmæd/ · adjective

Meaning

(chiefly British) Insane; crazy, mentally deranged..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly British) Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
2. (chiefly US, informal in UK and Ireland) Angry, annoyed.
3. (chiefly in the negative, informal) Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
4. (UK, Ireland, informal) Bizarre; incredible.
5. Wildly confused or excited.
6. Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
7. (colloquial, usually with for or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
8. (of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.

Example Sentences

You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?

He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.

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

Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.

Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!

Are you mad at me?

And I punished them oft in euery Synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them euen vnto strange cities.

She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

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Word Forms

• madder
• maddest
• mads
• madding
• madded

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