madly

adverb

1. 1

   In a mad manner without reason or understanding; wildly.

   I'm madly in love with you.

   But his cries were heard, as he madly grappled with the knives which stabbed him.

   If Austria had not madly invaded Piedmont in 1859, France could not have fought. If, the Pope had not been madly obstinate in rejecting the reforms pressed on him by France, he must have been sustained as a temporal ruler.

   It is the fact that, for the time, he is bereft of his senses; he is a man who has gone mad. He spends his money madly, he treats his friends madly, he treats himself madly. Those who would love him best if he were not mad are now afraid of him, and often hide themselves from him, and well they may. For this man, in his madness, may hurt them, strike them, kill them.

2. 2

   In a mad manner angrily

   Diane screamed madly down the phone to the prank caller.

3. 3

   In a mad manner extremely surprisingly or unexpectedly

   In a way the better procedures you have I think, bizarrely and madly it actually serves to increase rather than decrease the problem

Forms

comparative

madlier, more madly

superlative

madliest, most madly