mad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd/
ipa: /ˈmæːd/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /ˈmɛəd/
rhymes: -æd
Etymology: From Middle English mad, madde, madd, medd, from Old English ġemǣd, ġemǣded (“enraged”), past participle of ġemǣdan, *mǣdan (“to make insane or foolish”), from Proto-Germanic *maidijaną (“to change; damage; cripple; injure; make mad”), from Proto-Germanic *maidaz ("weak; crippled"; compare Old English gemād (“silly, mad”), Old High German gimeit (“foolish, crazy”), literary German gemeit (“mad, insane”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (gamaiþs, “crippled”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- ("to change"; compare Old Irish máel (“bald, dull”), Old Lithuanian ap-maitinti (“to wound”), Sanskrit मेथति (méthati, “he hurts, comes to blows”)).
Senses: examples: text: He was driving mad slow.
text: It's mad hot today.
text: He seems mad keen on her.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
Synonyms: sense: slang: Intensifier; very
word: hella
word: helluv
word: wicked
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from mad (all parts of speech)
word: all over the place like a mad woman's custard
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word: as mad as a cut snake
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word: barking mad
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word: bemad
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word: big mad
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word: boiling mad
sense: Terms derived from mad (all parts of speech)
word: drive someone mad
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word: flaming mad
sense: Terms derived from mad (all parts of speech)
word: get glad in the same britches one got mad in
sense: Terms derived from mad (all parts of speech)
word: get glad in the same pants one got mad in
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word: hopping mad
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word: horn-mad
sense: Terms derived from mad (all parts of speech)
word: like hey-go-mad
sense: Terms derived from mad (all parts of speech)
word: like mad
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word: little mad
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word: mad-apple
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word: mad as a bear with a sore head
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word: mad as a box of frogs
sense: Terms derived from mad (all parts of speech)
word: mad as a brush
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word: mad as a cut snake
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word: mad as a fish
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word: mad as a hatter
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word: mad hatter
sense: Terms derived from mad (all parts of speech)
word: mad as a hornet
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word: mad as a March hare
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word: mad as a meat axe
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word: mad as a mongoose
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word: mad as a wet hen
sense: Terms derived from mad (all parts of speech)
word: mad as cut snakes
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word: mad as hops
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word: madbrain
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word: madbrained
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word: mad-cap
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word: madcap
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word: Madchester
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word: mad cow
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word: mad cow disease
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word: madden
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word: madding
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word: maddish
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word: maddle
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word: mad-doctor
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word: mad dog
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word: mad-dog
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word: mad dogs and Englishmen
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word: mad-dog skullcap
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word: mad enough to chew nails
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word: mad for it
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word: mad hatter disease
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word: mad hatter syndrome
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word: madhead
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word: mad honey
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word: madhouse
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word: mad itch
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word: Mad King George
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word: mad lad
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word: Mad Lib
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word: madling
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word: madly
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word: madman
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word: mad man
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word: Mad Max
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word: mad minute
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word: mad money
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word: madness
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word: mad on
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word: mad-on
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word: madperson
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word: mad professor
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word: mad props
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word: mad queen chess
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word: Mad River
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word: mad science
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word: mad scientist
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word: madsome
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word: madstone
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word: mad with it
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word: madwoman
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word: madwort
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word: mald
sense: Terms derived from mad (all parts of speech)
word: malding
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word: raging mad
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word: rip-snorting mad
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word: run mad
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word: semimad
sense: Terms derived from mad (all parts of speech)
word: spitting mad
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word: stark raving mad
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word: stark staring mad
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word: unmad