mad
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mad/mad/
▶adjective (madder, maddest)
- 1 mentally ill; insane.
■ extremely foolish or ill-advised.
■ (of a dog) rabid.
- 2 informal frenzied; frantic.
- 3 informal very enthusiastic about something. [in combination] he's football-mad.
- 4 informal very angry.
– phrases
like mad informal with great intensity, energy, or enthusiasm.
mad keen Brit. informal very enthusiastic.
like mad informal with great intensity, energy, or enthusiasm.
mad keen Brit. informal very enthusiastic.
– derivatives
madly adverb,
madness noun.
madly adverb,
madness noun.
– origin OE gemǣd(e)d ‘maddened’, participial form rel. to gemād ‘mad’, of Gmc origin.
'mad' also found in these Oxford entries:
amentia
- banana
- barking
- bat
- bats
- batty
- bend
- bonkers
- buggy
- chump
- complement
- demented
- dotty
- frantic
- fruitcake
- fury
- gaga
- gale
- hair
- hatter
- head
- headbanger
- hopping
- kook
- loony
- loopy
- lymphatic
- mad cow disease
- mental
- mentalist
- meshuga
- nomad
- nutcase
- nuts
- nutso
- nutter
- nutty
- pole
- postal
- raving
- rocker
- sane
- schizoid
- spinny
- stark
- touch
- tree
- trolley
- wacko
