mad
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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”)).
Inflected forms:
form: madder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: maddest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: madding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: madded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: madded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: 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!
gloss: Angry, annoyed.
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
examples: 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.
gloss: Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.
I'm not mad at this little house, though.
But I mean, once the flow was there, nobody was mad at it.
gloss: Bizarre; incredible.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
examples: It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.
gloss: Wildly confused or excited.
pos: adj
examples: to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred
It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
My brother, quiet as a cat, seems perfectly contented with the internal feelings of his felicity. The Marquis, mad as a kitten, is all in motion to express it, from tongue to heel.
[…] at all, just a vast space of desert out in the saltlands of Nevada. It's serious dressing up, the maddest entertainment, craziest art, and at the end there's the burning of a huge effigy, stuffed with pyrotechnics 287.
gloss: Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
pos: adj
gloss: Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
usually
examples: Aren't you just mad for that red dress?
My wife is soccer-mad.
Glenereegan is to be sold to the highest bidder to-day.[…]I'm tould - It's Pether Byrne that dhrives Bianconi's car that tould me - that a smalpeen of a Dublin attorney is mad for it.
gloss: Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
pos: adj
examples: a mad dog
gloss: Intensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.
pos: adj
tags: New-York
slang
examples: I gotta give you mad props for scoring us those tickets.
 Their lead guitarist has mad skills.
 There are always mad girls at those parties.
gloss: Having impaired polarity.
pos: adj
gloss: To be or become mad.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: The imperial Elizabetta gazed with surprise at the youthful and unpretending appearance of the little being that had set the world madding.
gloss: To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
pos: verb
tags: Jamaica
US
colloquial
examples: This musick mads me, let it sound no more.
He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented […].
Carolina! Whine your body gyal! Make Dem know say you have it fi mad dem
Synonyms: mighty
kinda
hella
helluv
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