Mad - English meaning

adjective

Feeling or showing strong annoyance, displeasure, or hostility; full of anger.

Usage examples:

An angry customer

adjective

Having the feeling people get when something unfair, painful, or bad happens

Usage examples:

An angry mob, i hope you aren’t angry with me., he angrily slammed the door.

adjective

Very enthusiastic or passionate.

Usage examples:

An ardent supporter of the cause of education

adjective

Showing strong feelings; eager

Usage examples:

They were ardent pacifists.

adjective

Having or showing a keen interest in or enthusiasm for something.

Usage examples:

An avid reader of science fiction

adjective

Extremely eager or interested

Usage examples:

Knowles is an avid runner and cross-country skier., we listened avidly to the news from our secret …

adjective

Out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied.

Usage examples:

A man went berserk with an arsenal of guns

adjective

Not in control, extremely excited, or crazy

Usage examples:

He received a perfect score and the crowd went berserk.

adjective

Very hot.

Usage examples:

The delicious cool of marble corridors after the blazing heat outside

verb

Burn fiercely or brightly.

Usage examples:

Plumes of smoke rose from fires blazing around the city

verb

Set an example by being the first to do something; pioneer.

Usage examples:

Small firms would set the pace, blazing a trail for others to follow

adjective

Able or needing to be officially recorded.

Usage examples:

Encephalitis was a certifiable condition

adjective

Mentally ill

Usage examples:

Simon's washing his car again - that man's certifiable!

adjective

Insane or wildly out of control.

Usage examples:

A crazed killer

verb

Make (someone) insane or wildly out of control.

Usage examples:

Crazed by hunger, the population began to turn on the rebels

adjective

Behaving wildly

Usage examples:

His baseball glove is among the objects crazed collectors want to buy.

adjective

Mad, especially as manifested in wild or aggressive behaviour.

Usage examples:

Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor

adverb

Extremely.

Usage examples:

I've been crazy busy

noun

A mad person.

Usage examples:

Keep that crazy away from me

noun

A mark, object, or figure formed by two short intersecting lines or pieces (+ or ×).

Usage examples:

Place a cross against the preferred choice

verb

Go or extend across or to the other side of (an area, stretch of water, etc.).

Usage examples:

She has crossed the atlantic twice

adjective

Annoyed.

Usage examples:

He seemed to be very cross about something

adjective

Suffering from dementia.

adjective

Mentally ill

adjective

Mad; insane.

Usage examples:

A deranged gunman

verb

Make (someone) insane.

Usage examples:

That business last month must have deranged him a bit

adjective

Behaving in a way that is dangerous or not controlled because of mental illness

Usage examples:

A deranged patient

adjective

Strongly wanting to do or have something.

Usage examples:

The man was eager to please

adjective

Having or showing desire or interest

Usage examples:

Lots of eager volunteers responded to the appeal for help.

adjective

Very angry; furious.

Usage examples:

An enraged mob screamed abuse

verb

Make (someone) very angry.

Usage examples:

The students were enraged at these new rules

verb

Past simple and past participle of enrage

Usage examples:

Plans to build a new nightclub in the neighbourhood have enraged local residents., he was enraged a…

adjective

Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.

Usage examples:

He could be wildly enthusiastic about a project

adjective

Showing enthusiasm

Usage examples:

Enthusiastic about you don't seem very enthusiastic about the party - don't you want to go tonight?

adjective

Intensely irritated and frustrated.

Usage examples:

An exasperated expression

verb

Irritate and frustrate (someone) intensely.

Usage examples:

This futile process exasperates prison officers

adjective

Annoyed, especially because you can do nothing to solve a problem

Usage examples:

He's becoming increasingly exasperated with the situation.

adjective

Filled with excessive and single-minded zeal.

Usage examples:

Fanatical revolutionaries

adjective

Extremely interested in something, to a degree that some people find unreasonable

Usage examples:

His dedication to fitness was almost fanatical., fanatical about gary's fanatical about football., …

adjective

Having or displaying a passionate intensity.

Usage examples:

A fervent supporter of the revolution

adjective

Showing strong and sincere feelings or beliefs

Usage examples:

She was a fervent supporter of art and culture., i fervently hope he’s right.

adjective

Intensely enthusiastic or passionate, especially to an excessive degree.

Usage examples:

His fervid protestations of love

adjective

Showing strong and sincere feelings or beliefs

Usage examples:

She was a fervent supporter of art and culture., i fervently hope he’s right.

adjective

Feeling, showing, or expressing great anger.

Usage examples:

Smith was left fuming following the security breach

noun

The process of exposing wood to ammonia fumes in order to produce dark tints.

Usage examples:

Fuming is a highly toxic process

verb

Feel, show, or express great anger.

Usage examples:

‘we simply cannot have this’, she fumed

adjective

Extremely angry.

Usage examples:

He was furious when he learned about it

adjective

Filled with or showing great emotion.

Usage examples:

She made an impassioned plea for help

verb

Make passionate.

Usage examples:

Her body had once pleased and impassioned him

adjective

Very angry; enraged.

Usage examples:

Leonora glared back at him, incensed

verb

Perfume with incense or a similar fragrance.

Usage examples:

The aroma of cannabis incensed the air

verb

Make very angry.

Usage examples:

Locals are incensed at the suggestion

adjective

Feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment.

Usage examples:

He was indignant at being the object of suspicion

adjective

Angry because of something that is wrong or not fair

Usage examples:

She wrote an indignant letter to the paper complaining about the mayor’s actions., "your assumption…

verb

Make (someone) extremely angry and impatient.

Usage examples:

I was infuriated by your article

adjective

In a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behaviour, or social interaction; seriously mentally ill.

Usage examples:

He had gone insane

adjective

Extremely unreasonable, or mentally ill

Usage examples:

You’d have to be insane to spend $200 on dinner!, fisher went insane and had to be hospitalized.

adjective

Feeling or characterized by great anger.

Usage examples:

A barrage of irate letters

adjective

Very angry

Usage examples:

We’ve been getting some irate calls from customers.

adjective

Showing or feeling slight anger; annoyed.

Usage examples:

The irritated look on alec's face

verb

Make (someone) annoyed or a little angry.

Usage examples:

His tone irritated her

adjective

Annoyed

Usage examples:

I began to get increasingly irritated by/at her questions.

noun

A person who is mentally ill (not in technical use).

Usage examples:

She continued to gape at him as if he was a runaway lunatic from a nearby mental asylum.

adjective

Mentally ill (not in technical use).

Usage examples:

A ward of lunatic old ladies

noun

A foolish or crazy person

Usage examples:

He drives like a lunatic., a lunatic criminal

adjective

Mad.

Usage examples:

The way he turns on the television as soon as he walks in drives me nuts

exclamation

An expression of contempt or derision.

Usage examples:

Keep up the good work, and nuts to everyone who doesn't like it

verb

A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.

Usage examples:

He was cracking nuts with his teeth

adjective

Having, showing, or caused by strong feelings or beliefs.

Usage examples:

Passionate pleas for help

adjective

Full of emotion

Usage examples:

A passionate speech, he really cares passionately about getting students to stay in school.

noun

A chamber pot.

adjective

Short for poor, used to represent dialectal speech.

abbreviation

Petty officer.

adjective

Showing rage.

Usage examples:

A raging bull

verb

Feel or express violent uncontrollable anger.

Usage examples:

He raged at the futility of it all

adjective

Very severe or extreme

Usage examples:

A raging toothache, a raging thirst, he's got a raging (= high) temperature., a raging bore, a ragi…

adjective

(of a person) emotionally or mentally disturbed.

Usage examples:

She considered him to be mentally unbalanced and dangerous

verb

Make (someone or something) unsteady so that they tip or fall.

Usage examples:

The door almost unbalanced him by swinging open

adjective

(of an animal or plant) living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated or cultivated.

Usage examples:

A herd of wild goats

noun

A natural state or uncultivated or uninhabited region.

Usage examples:

Kiwis are virtually extinct in the wild

verb

Treat (a person or animal) harshly, so that they become untrusting or nervous.

Usage examples:

Let your pigeon fly for a while: we don't want to wild him

adjective

Full of or characterized by intense anger.

Usage examples:

Natural calamities seemed to be the work of a wrathful deity

adjective

Very angry, or often feeling strong anger

Usage examples:

It is not in mr freeman's nature to be wrathful or jealous., his hero-worship turns into wrathful j…

adjective

Having or showing zeal.

Usage examples:

The council was extremely zealous in the application of the regulations

adjective

Enthusiastic and eager

Usage examples:

He thought the reporters were too zealous in their attempts to get into the event.