Definition of MAD

mad

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • roused to anger; - Mark Twain
    • "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"
    • "mad at his friend"
  • affected with madness or insanity
    • "a man who had gone mad"
  • marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
    • "a mad whirl of pleasure"
  • very foolish
    • "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"

Adj

  • Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
  • Angry, annoyed.
  • Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
  • Bizarre; incredible.
  • Wildly confused or excited.
  • Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
  • Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
  • Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
  • Intensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.
  • Having impaired polarity.

Adv

  • Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.

Verb

  • To be or become mad.
  • To madden, to anger, to frustrate.

Origin / 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”)).

Scrabble Score: 6

mad is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
mad is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mad is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

mad is a valid Words With Friends word