Meaning of MAD
Pronunciation: | | mad
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- [adj] (informal) roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"
- [adj] affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
- [adj] marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"
- [adj] very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"
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| Synonyms: | | angry, brainsick, crazy, delirious, demented, distracted, disturbed, excited, foolish, frantic, harebrained, huffy, insane, sick, sore, unbalanced, unhinged, unrestrained, wild |
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| Definition: | | Mad Mad (Maxi Single) more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Mad\, n. [Cf. W. mad a male child, a boy.]
1. A slattern. [Prov. Eng.]
2. The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies;
and hence, sometimes, any fairy. --Shak.
\Mad\, obs.
p. p. of {Made}. --Chaucer.
\Mad\, a. [Compar. {Madder}; superl. {Maddest}.] [AS. gem?d,
gem[=a]d, mad; akin to OS. gem?d foolish, OHG. gameit, Icel.
mei?a to hurt, Goth. gam['a]ids weak, broken. ?.]
1. Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.
I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of
griefs would make men mad. --Shak.
2. Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason;
inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or
appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad
against political reform.
It is the land of graven images, and they are mad
upon their idols. --Jer. 1. 88.
And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted
them even unto strange cities. --Acts xxvi.
11.
3. Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing
distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme
rashness. ``Mad demeanor.'' --Milton.
Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years
of peace. --Franklin.
The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. --Jowett
(Thucyd.).
4. Extravagant; immoderate. ``Be mad and merry.'' --Shak.
``Fetching mad bounds.'' --Shak.
5. Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the
lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia;
rabid; as, a mad dog.
6. Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
[Colloq.]
7. Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
[Colloq.]
{Like mad}, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to
run like mad. --L'Estrange.
{To run mad}.
(a) To become wild with excitement.
(b) To run wildly about under the influence of
hydrophobia; to become affected with hydrophobia.
{To run mad after}, to pursue under the influence of
infatuation or immoderate desire. ``The world is running
mad after farce.'' --Dryden.
\Mad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Madded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Madding}.]
To make mad or furious; to madden.
Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would
have madded me. --Shak.
\Mad\, v. i.
To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See {Madding}. [Archaic]
--Chaucer.
Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest.
--Wyclif
(Acts).
\Mad\, n. [AS. ma?a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and
prob. to E. moth.] (Zo["o]l.)
An earthworm. [Written also {made}.]
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| Definition: | | 1. Michigan Algorithm Decoder. 2. A data flow language. ["Implementation of Data Structures on a Data Flow Computer", D.L. Bowen, Ph.D. Thesis, Victoria U Manchester, Apr 1981]. |
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