Definitions for maddest

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maddest mad·dest

Spelling: [mad-ist]

IPA: /ˈmæd ɪst/

Maddest is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in maddest (addemst).

Definitions for maddest

noun

1. an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:

Idioms

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

adjective

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

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 maddest

Midway in them, they met a rider, riding at the maddest gallop.

He is, on the whole, quite the maddest—and perhaps the most despicable—of the lot.

Remember that you are dealing with the cleverest and maddest brain we know of to-day.

A difference that in my maddest dreams I could never have hoped for.

Now I do not wish to show Hamlet at his maddest: but mad he must be shown, or he is no Hamlet at all.

What gave him those long hours of dejection, following the maddest gaiety?

Art thou the malignest of Sansculottists, or only the maddest?

Oh, I know it is the wildest, maddest, most unpardonable thing I am saying to you.

It was a shriek as of one in the maddest agony, and lasted for some seconds.

Both of 'em acted like they were mad at each other, but Fairchild seemed to be the maddest.