| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  m d |
| ADJECTIVE: | Inflected forms: mad·der, mad·dest
1. Angry; resentful. See synonyms at angry. 2. Suffering from a disorder of the mind; insane. 3. Temporarily or apparently deranged by violent sensations, emotions, or ideas: mad with jealousy. 4. Lacking restraint or reason; foolish: I was mad to have hired her in the first place. 5. Feeling or showing strong liking or enthusiasm: mad about sports. 6. Marked by extreme excitement, confusion, or agitation; frantic: a mad scramble for the bus. 7. Boisterously gay; hilarious: had a mad time. 8. Affected by rabies; rabid. | | TRANSITIVE & INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: mad·ded, mad·ding, mads
To make or become mad; madden. | | IDIOMS: | like mad Informal 1. Wildly; impetuously: drove like mad. 2. To an intense degree or great extent: worked like mad; snowing like mad. mad as a hatter Crazy; deranged. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old English gem dde, past participle of *gemdan, to madden, from gem d, insane. See mei-1 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | mad dish —ADJECTIVE
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