Mad

Adjective

 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  Angry, annoyed.
 * Are you mad at me?
 * 1) Wildly confused or excited.
 * 2) * 1787: The Fair Syrian, R. Bage, 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.
 * 1) Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
 * 2)  Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
 * Aren't you just mad for that red dress?
 * 1)  abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
 * A mad dog
 * 1)  Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; much or many.
 * I gotta give you mad props for scoring us those tickets.
 * Their lead guitarist has mad skills.
 * There's always mad girls at those parties.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:insane
 * See also Thesaurus:angry
 * hella, helluv, kinda.

Adverb

 * 1)  Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
 * He was driving mad slow.
 * It's mad hot today.

Synonyms

 * hella; helluv; wicked

Derived terms

 * mad as a hatter
 * madden
 * madding
 * madhouse
 * madly

Verb

 * 1)  To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
 * 2) * c. 1595, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Act V Scene 5:
 * This musick mads me, let it sound no more.
 * 1) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.iv:
 * He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented [...].

Adverbs for Mad
incoherently; fanatically; hopelessly; incurably; pathetically; violently; distractedly; bewilderedly; frantically; insanely; suddenly; periodically; hysterically; wildly; tragically; irrecoverably; irremediably.

Thesaurus
Dionysiac, 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, 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

Etymology
medd, madd, from gemǣd 'enraged', from gemād 'silly, mad', from  (compare  gimeit 'foolish, crazy', Gothic gamaiþs 'crippled'), past participle of *maiđjanan 'to cripple, injure', from  'to change' (compare  máel 'bald, dull', Old  ap-maitinti 'to wound',  méthati 'he hurts, comes to blows').

Adjective

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Breton: foll, sot
 * Catalan: boig, boja
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 瘋狂,,  ,  疯
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vanvittig, skør, sindssyg, gal
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: freneza
 * Faroese: ørur, svakur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: wahnsinnig,, , , geisteskrank
 * Greek: τρελός, παράφρονας , φρενοβλαβής , μανιακός
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ær
 * Ido: fola
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: 気が狂った, 狂しい,  頭がおかしい


 * Javanese:
 * Korean: 미친
 * Kurdish:
 * Malay:
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Old English: ,
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Pitjantjatjara: rama
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,  , ,
 * Sardinian: maccu, iscassiadu
 * Scottish Gaelic: às a ciall, às a chiall
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: บ้า, วิกลจริต
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: پاگل
 * Vietnamese:, cuồng
 * Volapük: lienetik


 * Breton: kounnaret, fuloret, fumet
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Faroese: óður
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,


 * Indonesian:
 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Old English:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Thai: (baa klaang)


 * Greek: ,
 * Norwegian: gal etter


 * Pashto:

Anagrams

 * Adm.
 * AMD
 * dam
 * DMA

Adjective

 * 1) good

Noun

 * 1) goodness

Noun

 * 1) food

Noun

 * 1) sandwich, bread and butter

Etymology
From matr:.

Noun
mad


 * 1) eye

Adjective

 * 1) good
 * 2) lucky, fortunate
 * 3) suitable

Noun

 * 1) goodness