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mad

  • adjective
  • /ˈmæd/

insane; crazy, mentally deranged.

Example

“You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?”

Other meanings

  1. Wildly confused or excited.

    “to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred”

  2. Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.

Related words

  • hoes mad
  • mad apple
  • bemad
  • Mad Lib
  • madbrain
  • madbrained
  • madcap
  • Madchester
  • maddish
  • maddle
  • madhead
  • madling

Word history

From Old English "ġemǣd".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “mad” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.