'MAD' definitions:
Definition of 'mad'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: huffy, mad, sore]
adjective
Affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
adjective
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained]
adjective
Very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" [syn: harebrained, insane, mad]
Definition of 'Mad'
From: GCIDE
- Mad \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. [1913 Webster]
- I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. --Jer. 1. 88. [1913 Webster]
- And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. --Acts xxvi. 11. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. "Mad demeanor." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. --Franklin. [1913 Webster]
- The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. --Jowett (Thucyd.). [1913 Webster]
- 4. Extravagant; immoderate. "Be mad and merry." --Shak. "Fetching mad bounds." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 7. Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mad'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Mad'
From: GCIDE
- Mad \Mad\, v. i. To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding. [Archaic] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest. --Wyclif (Acts). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mad'
From: GCIDE
- Mad \Mad\, n. [AS. ma?a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and prob. to E. moth.] (Zool.) An earthworm. [Written also made.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mad'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Acronyms for 'mad'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Memory Address Driver strength (BIOS)
- Message Address Directory
- Militaerischer AbschirmDienst (mil., org.)
Words containing 'MAD'
- Madded,
- Madding,
- Maddingly,
- Madly,
- Madness,
- mad about,
- Canine madness,
- Like mad,
- Mad apple,
- Moon madness,
- To run mad,
- To run mad after,
- To run mad on,
- mad dog,
- money mad,
- raving mad,
- As mad as a March Hare,
- Horn-mad,
- Mad-apple,
- Mad-headed,
- March-mad,
- mad anthony wayne,
- mad cow disease,
- stark raving mad,
- Mad-dog skullcap,
- mad-dog weed