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Type Words
Synonyms huffy, sore
Derivation madness


she gets mad when you wake her up so early.
mad at his friend.
Type Words
Synonyms brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, sick, unbalanced, unhinged
Derivation madness


a man who had gone mad.
Type Words
Synonyms delirious, excited, frantic, unrestrained
Derivation madness


a mad whirl of pleasure.
Type Words
Synonyms harebrained, insane
Derivation madness


a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains.

Examples of mad

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Finally she got mad at her sister for not pitching in, and blew up at her guest.
From the stltoday.com
If the United Nations did not exist, there would be a mad scramble to invent it.
From the post-gazette.com
My friend Ethel is mad as a hornet, but she has no choice but to keep taking it.
From the dailyherald.com
I mean I got painted pretty starkly as you know, sort of market-mad or whatever.
From the nzherald.co.nz
I really don't know whether to be happy or mad to find out just how big IQ84 is.
From the guardian.co.uk
Eric Fellner, from Working Title, the film's co-producer, thought they were mad.
From the telegraph.co.uk
After a while the Canadians, deciding we were more mad than bad, let us proceed.
From the independent.co.uk
A nuclear club comprised only of 5 large powers was fine under the rules of MAD.
From the independent.co.uk
I think you can drive yourself a bit mad trying to see what shape everyone's in.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Huffy: 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"
  • Brainsick: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
  • Delirious: marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"
  • Harebrained: very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"
  • (madly) in an uncontrolled manner; "she fought back madly"
  • (madly) insanely: in an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly"
  • Mu00E1d (Yiddish: u05DEu05D0u05D3u05E2u200E) is a village in Borsod-Abau00FAj-Zemplu00E9n County in northeastern Hungary.
  • Mad is a hard rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was formed in 1997.
  • Mad is an EP released by heavy metal band Raven in 1986. It has never been re-released on CD.