Dictionary Definition
mad adj
1 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, sore]
2 affected with madness or insanity; "a man who
had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
3 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, unrestrained]
4 very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane
risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge
between two mountains" [syn: harebrained, insane] [also: madding, madded, maddest, madder]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æd
Adjective
- Insane;
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.
- You want to spend $1000 on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?
- In the context of "chiefly US": Angry.
- Are you mad at me?
- Wildly confused or excited.
- Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
- (usually as mad for or
mad
about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy
about; infatuated
with; overcome with desire for.
- Aren't you just mad for that red dress?
- In the context of "of animals": abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
- A mad dog
- slang chiefly NY
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.
- Their lead guitarist has mad skills.
- I gotta give you mad props for scoring us those tickets.
Adverb
- slang chiefly NY
Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
- He was driving mad slow.
- It's mad hot today.
- He was driving mad slow.
Translations
insane (adj.)
- Albanian: marrë
- Arabic: (majnūn)
- Breton: foll , sot
- Catalan: boig , boja
- Croatian: lud
- Czech: šílený
- Danish: vanvittig, skør, sindssyg, gal
- Dutch: gek, zot
- Finnish: hullu, mieletön
- French: fou , folle
- German: wahnsinnig, verrückt, toll, irre
- Greek: τρελός , παράφρονας , φρενοβλαβής , μανιακός
- Hindi: (pagal)
- Hungarian: őrült
- Ido: fola
- Indonesian: gila
- Italian: pazzo, folle, matto, insano
- Kurdish:
- Malay: gila
- Norwegian: gal, sprø
- Old English: wōd+
- Pitjantjatjara: rama
- Portuguese: louco
- Sardinian: maccu, iscassiadu
- Scottish Gaelic: às a ciall , às a chiall
- Spanish: loco , loca , trastornado , trastornada
- Thai: (baa), (vi khon ja rit)
angry
- Breton: kounnaret, fuloret, fumet
- Danish: vred, gal
- Dutch: boos, kwaad
- Finnish: vihainen
- French: fâché , fâchée , en colère m|f
- German: sauer, böse
- Greek: έξαλλος , εξοργισμένος , τρελός
- Kurdish: , ,
- Norwegian: sint, sinna
- Portuguese: bravo, nervoso
- Spanish: enfadado , enfadada , enojado , enojada
- Thai: (baa klaang)
wanting intensely
- Greek: μανιακός , λυσσασμένος
Derived terms
Breton
Noun
madDanish
Pronunciation
Noun
madPalauan
Noun
madExtensive Definition
Mad may refer to:
- Anger
- Madness, the state of being irrational or suffering from Mental illness
- Mad (band), a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Mad
(magazine), an American humor magazine and its various
spinoffs:
- MADtv, a sketch comedy television series
- Mad Magazine Card Game
- The Mad Magazine Game
- Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
- Mad River, various rivers
MAD may be an acronym for:
- Malevolent Agency of Destruction, a fictional evil organization led by Dr. Claw from the cartoon series Inspector Gadget
- M.A.D., a computer-controlled robot in the computer game Robot Arena 2: Design and Destroy
- MAD Movie, a Japanese fan-made video, much like an Anime Music Video. MAD can also describe the Japanese AMV community
- MAD programming language (short for Michigan Algorithm Decoder)
- MAD UK Ltd, a British clothing store chain
- Madrid Barajas International Airport, the IATA airport code
- Magnetic airborne detector
- Magnetic anomaly detector, a scientific instrument and anti-submarine warfare detection device
- Marketing and Design Service of the toy group of General Mills. See also Care Bears
- Maximal areal density
- Mean absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability
- Median absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability, more resistant to outliers
- Mean absolute distance, a mathematical function
- Meg and Dia, American indie rock band
- Methodical Accelerator Design. Particle accelerator simulation tool.
- Militärischer Abschirmdienst, the Military Counterintelligence division of the German Army
- Moroccan dirham, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Morocco
- MPEG Audio Decoder, an audio decompression software
- Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion, a technique used in X-ray crystallography
- Multiple Access Dialler, a dialer developed by Compuspec that can access a variety of telecom networks in case one service is not available
- Mutual assured destruction, a military doctrine and concept in international political relations
- MAD (music TV), a Greek music channel
- MAD (poem), a poem by the World War I poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
- MAD Studio, an architectural firm
- Museum of Arts & Design, located in New York City
mad in Czech: MAD
mad in Danish: MAD
mad in German: MAD
mad in Spanish: MAD
mad in Esperanto: MAD
mad in French: MAD
mad in Italian: MAD
mad in Hebrew: MAD
mad in Hungarian: MAD
mad in Dutch: MAD
mad in Japanese: MAD
mad in Kölsch: MAD (Watt ėßß datt?)
mad in Swedish: Mad
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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