mad
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (chiefly British Isles) Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.Examples: "You want to spend $1000 on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?"; "He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women."; "I have heard my grandsire say full oft, / Extremity of griefs would make men mad."British-Isles
2. (chiefly US; informal in UK and Ireland) Angry, annoyed.Examples: "Are you mad at me?"; "And I punished them oft in euery Synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them euen vnto strange cities."; "She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man."USinformal
3. (chiefly in the negative, informal) Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.Examples: "Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it."; "I'm not mad at this little house, though."; "But I mean, once the flow was there, nobody was mad at it."informal
4. (UK, Ireland, informal) Bizarre; incredible.Examples: "It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired."IrelandUKinformal
5. (colloquial, usually with for or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.Examples: "Aren't you just mad for that red dress?"; "Glenereegan is to be sold to the highest bidder to-day.[…]I'm tould - It's Pether Byrne that dhrives Bianconi's car that tould me - that a smalpeen of a Dublin attorney is mad for it."colloquialusually
6. (of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.Examples: "a mad dog"
adv (English)
1. (slang, chiefly New York, African-American Vernacular, UK and Ireland, dialectal) Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.Examples: "He was driving mad slow."; "It's mad hot today."; "He seems mad keen on her."Synonyms: wicked, hellaIrelandNew-YorkUKdialectalnot-comparableslang
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be or become mad.Examples: "The imperial Elizabetta gazed with surprise at the youthful and unpretending appearance of the little being that had set the world madding."intransitiveobsolete
2. (now colloquial US, Jamaica) To madden, to anger, to frustrate.Examples: "This musick mads me, let it sound no more."; "He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented […]."; "Carolina! Whine your body gyal! Make Dem know say you have it fi mad dem"JamaicaUScolloquial
noun (English)
1. (genetics) Initialism of mothers against decapentaplegic.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable
2. (astrophysics) Acronym of magnetically-arrested disc, a type of black hole accretion disc).abbreviationacronymalt-ofcountableuncountable
3. (medicine, ENT, dental, prosthetics) Initialism of mandibular advancement device.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable
name (English)
1. (programming) Acronym of Michigan algorithm decoder, a programming language, a variant of ALGOL, developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan.abbreviationacronymalt-of
noun (English)
1. (genetics) Acronym of mothers against decapentaplegic.abbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable
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