Mad

p. p.	1.	p. p. of Made.
a.	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 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.
	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.
	7.	Having impaired polarity; - applied to a compass needle. Like mad like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to run like mad. L'Estrange. - 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. - Dryden.
v. t.	1.	To make mad or furious; to madden. [imp. & p. p. Madded; p. pr. & vb. n. Madding.] Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would have madded me. - Shak.
v. i.	1.	To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding. Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest. - Wyclif (Acts).
n.	1.	(Zool.) An earthworm.

Adj.	1.	mad - 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" Synonyms: huffy, sore
	2.	mad - affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, unhinged, unbalanced, sick, disturbed
	3.	mad - marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" Synonyms: delirious, frantic, unrestrained, excited
	4.	mad - very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" Synonyms: harebrained, insane

(language)

MAD - 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].

Militaerischer AbschirmDienst (mil., org.)Dionysiac, a transient madness, abandoned, abnormal, absurd, accident-prone, acrimonious, affronted, amok, anarchic, anger, angered, angriness, apish, ardent, ardently, asinine, avid, bacchic, balmy, bananas, barmy, batty, befooled, beguiled, bellowing, bereft of reason, berserk, besotted, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bonkers, brainless, brainsick, breakneck, browned-off, buffoonish, bughouse, bugs, careless, carried away, certifiable, chaotic, childish, choleric, cockeyed, corybantic, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, craze, crazed, credulous, cross, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, deluded, dement, demoniac, deprived of reason, derange, desperate, desperately, devil-may-care, disoriented, distract, distracted, distraught, dizzy, doting, dotty, drive insane, drive mad, dumb, eager, ecstatic, enrage, enragement, enraptured, enthusiastic, enthusiastically, excitedly, extravagant, fallacious, fanatical, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, feral, ferocious, fervent, fervently, fervid, feverishly, fierce, flaky, flighty, fond, fool, foolhardy, foolheaded, foolish, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, frenziedly, frenzy, fuddled, fulminating, fuming, furiously, fury, futile, gaga, goofy, grapes of wrath, gulled, haggard, hallucinated, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, heat, heated, heedless, hellish, hog-wild, hooked, hotheaded, howling, hurried, hysterical, hysterically, idiotic, ill-advised, ill-considered, imbecile, immature, impetuous, imprudent, in a transport, in hysterics, inane, incense, indignant, indiscreet, inept, infatuated, infuriate, infuriated, infuriation, insensate, intoxicated, invalid, irate, irateness, ire, ireful, irrational, irritated, keen, kooky, like crazy, like mad, like one possessed, livid, loco, loony, loopy, lunatic, madcap, madden, maddened, madding, madly, maenadic, make mad, maniac, manic, maudlin, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, mentally ill, meshuggah, mindless, moon-struck, moronic, non compos, non compos mentis, nonrational, nonsensical, not all there, not right, nuts, nutty, odd, of unsound mind, off, offended, orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic, outraged, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, pandemoniac, passionate, pissed, pissed-off, possessed, potty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, preposterous, psycho, psychotic, puerile, queer, rabid, rage, raging, ramping, ranting, rash, ravening, raving, raving mad, ravished, reasonless, reckless, riled up, rip-roaring, roaring, round the bend, running mad, running wild, saeva indignatio, sappy, screwy, send mad, senseless, sentimental, shatter, sick, silly, slap-bang, slapdash, sophistic, sore, soreness, stark-mad, stark-raving mad, stark-staring mad, storming, stormy, strange, stupid, tempestuous, tetched, thoughtless, ticked off, touched, transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, twisted, umbrage, unbalance, unbalanced, uncontrollable, unhinge, unhinged, unreasonable, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unwise, uproarious, vials of wrath, violent, violently, wacky, wandering, wanton, waxy, wet, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, wildly, witless, worked up, wrath, wrathfulness, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up, zealous

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