mad
see also: MAD
Pronunciation Adjective
MAD
Noun
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see also: MAD
Pronunciation Adjective
mad (comparative madder, superlative maddest)
- Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
- You want to spend $1000 on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?
- He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.
- c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:
- I have heard my grandsire say full oft, / Extremity of griefs would make men mad.
- (chiefly, US; informal in UK) Angry, annoyed.
- Are you mad at me?
- (UK, informal) Bizarre; incredible.
- It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.
- Wildly confused or excited.
- to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred
- Bible, Jer. 1. 88
- It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
- 1787, R. Bage, The Fair Syrian, p.314 ↗
- 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.
- Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
- (colloquial, usually with for or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
- Aren't you just mad for that red dress?
- (of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
- a mad dog
- (slang, chiefly Northeastern US) Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; very#Adverb|very, much or many.
- 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.
- (of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.
- (insane) See also Thesaurus:insane
- (angry) See also Thesaurus:angry
- (slang: Intensifier, much) wicked, mighty, kinda, helluv, hella.
- French: fou
- German: wahnsinnig, verrückt, toll, irre, geisteskrank
- Italian: pazzo, folle, matto, insano
- Portuguese: louco, maluco, doido
- Russian: сумасше́дший
- Spanish: loco, trastornado, zumbado (colloquial)
- French: fâché, en colère
- German: sauer, böse
- Portuguese: bravo, nervoso, irado
- Spanish: enfadado, enojado
- Spanish: loco
mad (not comparable)
- (slang, New England, New York and UK, dialect) Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
- He was driving mad slow.
- It's mad hot today.
- He seems mad keen on her.
mad (mads, present participle madding; past and past participle madded)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be or become mad. [14th-19th c.]
- 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
- The imperial Elizabetta gazed with surprise at the youthful and unpretending appearance of the little being that had set the world madding.
- 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
- (now colloquial US) To madden, to anger, to frustrate. [from 15th c.]
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Act V Scene 5:
- This musick mads me, let it sound no more.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv:
- He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented […].
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Act V Scene 5:
MAD
Noun
mad
- Initialism of mutually assured destruction
- Abbreviation of magnetic anomaly detector.
- (programming) Acronym of Michigan algorithm decoder, a programming language, a variant of ALGOL, developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan.
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