mad
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- Australia//ˈmæːd//
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Insane; crazy; mentally deranged.
aggettivo
- 1
Insane; crazy; mentally deranged.
You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?
He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.
I have heard my grandsire say full oft, / Extremity of griefs would make men mad.
Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.
- 2
informaleAngry; annoyed.
Are you mad at me?
And I punished them oft in euery Synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them euen vnto strange cities.
She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
- 3
informaleUsed litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.
I'm not mad at this little house, though.
But I mean, once the flow was there, nobody was mad at it.
- 4
informaleBizarre; incredible.
It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.
- 5
Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
- 6
Wildly confused or excited.
to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred
It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
My brother, quiet as a cat, seems perfectly contented with the internal feelings of his felicity. The Marquis, mad as a kitten, is all in motion to express it, from tongue to heel.
[…] at all, just a vast space of desert out in the saltlands of Nevada. It's serious dressing up, the maddest entertainment, craziest art, and at the end there's the burning of a huge effigy, stuffed with pyrotechnics 287.
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Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
Aren't you just mad for that red dress?
My wife is soccer-mad.
She's mad on the baking these days.
Glenereegan is to be sold to the highest bidder to-day.[…]I'm tould - It's Pether Byrne that dhrives Bianconi's car that tould me - that a smalpeen of a Dublin attorney is mad for it.
- 8
Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
a mad dog
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gergoIntensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much, excellent or many.
I gotta give you mad props for scoring us those tickets. Their lead guitarist has mad skills. There are always mad girls at those parties.
- 10
Having impaired polarity.
Etimologia
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”)).
avverbio
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gergoIntensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
He was driving mad slow.
It's mad hot today.
He seems mad keen on her.
verbo
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obsoletoTo be or become mad.
The imperial Elizabetta gazed with surprise at the youthful and unpretending appearance of the little being that had set the world madding.
- 2
To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
This musick mads me, let it sound no more.
He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented […].
Carolina! Whine your body gyal! Make Dem know say you have it fi mad dem
Etimologia
From Middle English madden, from the adjective; compare Old English ġemǣdan.
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