mad
Insane; crazy; mentally deranged.
Adjective 4 meanings
Insane; crazy; mentally deranged.
“You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?”
Angry; annoyed.
“Are you mad at me?”
Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
“Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.”
Bizarre; incredible.
“It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.”
Verb 1 meaning
To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
Etymology
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 Old English gemād (“silly, mad”), Old High German gimeit (“foolish, crazy”), literary German gemeit (“mad, insane”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (gamaiþs, “crippled”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- ("to change"; compare Old Irish máel (“bald, dull”), Old Lithuanian ap-maitinti (“to wound”), Sanskrit मेथति (méthati, “he hurts, comes to blows”)).
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MAD at a glance
MAD has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (M 3 + A 1 + D 2) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,820 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with mad
All rhymes- NOMAD8
- HEBDOMAD17
- BEMAD10
- SEMINOMAD14
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