Definitions for MAD

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MAD mad

Spelling: [mad]

IPA: /mæd/

Mad is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in MAD (adm).

Definitions for MAD

noun

1. an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
2. Mutual Assured Destruction.

Idioms

1. like mad, Informal. with great haste, impulsiveness, energy, or enthusiasm:
2. mad as a hatter, completely insane.

adjective

1. mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
2. enraged; greatly provoked or irritated; angry.
3. abnormally furious; ferocious: affected with rabies; rabid:
4. extremely foolish or unwise; imprudent; irrational:
5. wildly excited or confused; frantic:
6. overcome by desire, eagerness, enthusiasm, etc.; excessively or uncontrollably fond; infatuated:
7. wildly lively and merry; enjoyably hilarious:
8. (of wind, storms, etc.) furious in violence:

verb (used with object)

1. Archaic. to make mad.

verb (used without object)

1. Archaic. to be, become, or act mad.

Origin of MAD

before 900; Middle English mad (adj.), madden (intransitive v., derivative of the adj.); Old English gemǣd(e)d, past participle of *gemǣdan to make mad, akin to gemād mad, foolish; cognate wi

Examples for MAD

Were they all mad—was he not standing with one foot in the penitentiary?

We fight over their ownership and control, as if reality were a resource as scarce as the water and oil in mad Max.

From righteous fury to faux indignation, everything we got mad about in 2014—and how outrage has taken over our lives.

He was so handsome and so gifted, and there were women who were mad about him.

Heaven knows what mad instinct was at the back of his brain.

If it mad not been for Ben, nothing more would have been done or said about, the matter.

But wasn't it awfully risky to keep making him mad like that?

This year's shockers: no Amy Poehler, nothing for 'mad Men,' and a whole lot of love for virgins and transgenders.

When he has called the police in the past, they have not responded, or responded “mad late.”

Thank you for this moment, thank you for this mad love, thank you for this trip to the Élysée.