mad

adjective · adverb · verbA1

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adjective

Comparative

madder

Superlative

maddest

1.
(British)(chiefly British) Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?
He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.
2.
(US, informal)(chiefly US, informal in UK and Ireland) Angry, annoyed.
Are you mad at me?
3.
(informal)(chiefly in the negative, informal) Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.
4.
(Ireland, UK, informal)Bizarre; incredible.
It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.
5.
Wildly confused or excited.
to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred
6.
Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
7.
(colloquial, usually)(colloquial, usually with for or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
Aren't you just mad for that red dress?
My wife is soccer-mad.
8.
(of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
a mad dog
9.
(New York, slang)(slang, chiefly New York, African-American Vernacular) Intensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.
I gotta give you mad props for scoring us those tickets. Their lead guitarist has mad skills. There are always mad girls at those parties.
10.
(of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.

Trạng từ

adverb

1.
(Ireland, New York, UK, dialectal, not comparable, slang)(slang, chiefly New York, African-American Vernacular, UK and Ireland, dialectal) Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
He was driving mad slow.
It's mad hot today.
He seems mad keen on her.

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verb

V_es/s

mads

V_ing/Gerund

madding

V_ed/pp

madded

1.
(intransitive, obsolete)To be or become mad.
2.
(Jamaica, US, colloquial)(now colloquial US, Jamaica) To madden, to anger, to frustrate.

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ine-pro From Middle English mad, madde, madd, medd, from Old English ġemǣd, ġemǣded (enraged), past participle of ġemǣdan, *mǣdan (to make insane or foolish), from Proto-Germanic *maidijaną (to change; damage; cripple; injure; make mad), from Proto-Germanic *maidaz ("weak; crippled"; compare gemād, gimeit, literary gemeit, 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 crippled), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- ("to change";