mad

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. (British-Isles) Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
2. (US, informal) Angry, annoyed.
3. (informal) Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
4. (Ireland, UK, informal) Bizarre; incredible.
5. Wildly confused or excited.
6. Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
7. (colloquial, usually) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
8. Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
9. (New-York, slang) Intensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.
10. Having impaired polarity.

Adv

Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To be or become mad.
2. (Jamaica, US, colloquial) To madden, to anger, to frustrate.

Concepts

fou

en colère

😠

dément

aberrant

furieux

insensé

fâché

😠

courroucé

furibond

hors de soi

aliéné

excédé

insane

énervé

irrité

fâchée

folle

cinglé

timbré

enragé

barjot

farfelu

fêlé

maboul

sot

zinzin

idiot

barje

synoque

agité

dingue

ouf

sinocque

avide

bête

cinglée

colère

💢

devenir fou

dingo

écervelé

givré

irrationnel

irrationnelle

loufoque

malade

🤢

méchant

se fâcher

susceptible

torve

démentiel

Synonymes

crazy

insane

angry

😠

nuts

demented

furious

foolish

wild

lunatic

out of one’s mind

rabid

stupid

deranged

frantic

mentally ill

delirious

irate

frenzied

silly

unhinged

daft

enraged

barmy

loco

loony

disturbed

wacky

eccentric

nutty

reckless

upset

madman

madden

intoxicated

huffy

unbalanced

berserk

sick

🤢

sore

raging

excited

raving

cross

infuriate

crazed

abnormal

psychotic

maniac

madding

maniacal

Traductions

loco

verrückt

matto

pazzo

gek

wahnsinnig

arrabbiato

louco

folle

krankzinnig

τρελός

böse

irre

dolzinnig

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmæd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: mad

Hérité de ancien anglais: ġemǣdd

Appartenant à ancien anglais: gemād

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: gimeit

Appartenant à allemand: gemeit

Appartenant à gotique: 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃

Appartenant à ancien irlandais: máel

Appartenant à Old Lithuanian: ap-maitinti

Appartenant à sanskrit: मेथति

In summary

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”)).