mad

Meaning

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

crazy

out of one’s mind

off one’s rocket

wierd

make angry

become angry

one brick short of a full load

drive someone mad

become mad

feel angry

lose one’s mind

off one’s chump

off one’s head

off one’s nut

out of mind

lose one’s marbles

off one’s rocker

off one’s trolley

crazy-headed

become insane

barking mad

crazy as a two-bob watch

intellectually dull

mentally-deficient

crack brained

a few sandwiches short of a picnic

teet-lipped

wild and wooly

crazy as a loon

shouting mad

bedlamite

brain-sick

enrage

get angry

go berserk

light in the head

mentally deficient

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmæd/

From Middle English mad, madde, madd, medd, from Old English ġemǣdd, 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”)).

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