mad
IPA: mˈæd
noun
- Initialism of mutual assured destruction or mutually assured destruction.
- Initialism of magnetic anomaly detector.
- (genetics) Initialism of mothers against decapentaplegic.
- (astrophysics) Acronym of magnetically-arrested disc (a type of black hole accretion disc).
- (programming) Acronym of Michigan algorithm decoder, a programming language, a variant of ALGOL, developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan.
- (genetics) Acronym of mothers against decapentaplegic.
verb
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be or become mad.
- (now colloquial US, Jamaica) To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
adjective
- (chiefly British Isles) Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
- (chiefly US; informal in UK) Angry, annoyed.
- (chiefly in the negative, informal) Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
- (UK, informal) Bizarre; incredible.
- Wildly confused or excited.
- Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
- (colloquial, usually with for or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
- (of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
- (slang, chiefly New England, New York, African-American Vernacular) Intensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.
- (of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.
adverb
- (slang, chiefly New England, New York, African-American Vernacular and UK, dialectal) Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
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Examples of "mad" in Sentences
- The mad man was caged up.
- He is wacko, mad and crazy.
- Darius seems unbalanced and mad.
- At the end of the film he goes mad.
- He is mad at his wife's prodigality.
- The dog was mad and thus ungovernable.
- These incidents drive the seahorses mad.
- It shows the futility and madness of war.
- But they remain mad theories and impermissible by policy.
- Under the pressure of sickness and fever, the King went mad.