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adjectivemaddest, madder madmæd 1British Mentally ill; insane. 有精神病的；精神严重失常的；疯的 he felt as if he were going mad 他觉得自己简直要发疯了。 Example sentencesExamples - But Desdemona, she was nothing but insane, mad, crazy, and that was the thing she passed on.
- It does not mean that he is in a psychotic state or raving mad, but it indicates your finding in a legal way.
- He looked wet through and filthy at the same time, totally dishevelled, more like the mad scientist than the nutty professor.
- The household is mad, disturbed, yet idyllic and peaceful.
- In The Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys drew a haunting portrait of the young Mrs Rochester before she went mad and ended her days in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
- There was a guy in there clearly barking mad, swearing and being odd.
- It was disturbing to think him mad because he seemed so… normal.
- Posterity has called her mad: a schizophrenic.
- Charlie was an orphan and had been raised by an old widower man, Mr Smith, who many respected, but everyone thought was slightly mad.
- Why should they be interested in my mad ravings?
- He described him as completely mad, crazy, off the wall.
- Swift was as disgusted by the moral disease of human gluttony as he was by its lazy and revolting cures, so much so that he became obsessed with scatological matters and eventually went mad.
- You have to be mad, you have to be insane, to despair in that way.
- The narrator is convinced someone is haunting him, taking possession of his mind, making him think mad thoughts.
- It's kind of nutty, kind of mad and that's exactly the kind of art that we like.
- Their country was like a man who was losing a great battle, and in his mad and insane mind he was forced to do rash things.
- ‘She went mad and started throwing stock around the shop,’ said Mr Brown, who has run the family business for 16 years.
- That is why they are declared schizophrenic - mad folk, in common parlance.
- Would I go slowly mad, develop dementia and suffer a painful, lingering death?
- I've disappeared countless times when I thought too many people thought I was mad or bad or loony.
Synonyms insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouth - 1.1 (of behaviour or an idea) extremely foolish; not sensible.
（人、行为、想法）极其愚蠢的；极不明智的 Antony's mother told him he was mad to be leaving Dublin 安东尼的母亲对他说他打算离开都柏林是极不明智的。 Example sentencesExamples - The future scenario gives him carte blanche to run riot with all these mad ideas.
- Big cities like London, Paris and New York are all mad ideas to host events of this size.
- The trek, that will take approximately seven days to complete, was the result of a mad idea on New Year's Eve.
- The reader isn't expected to take anything on faith or invest belief in any seemingly mad ideas, which is probably just the right tone for this sort of introductory book.
- There's no secret code or literary illusion, there's just his own mad thoughts on a page.
- As a result, without the discipline that would have come with attempting to appeal to an audience, I gave free rein to any mad idea which popped into my head.
- You'd have to be totally mad to think you could go through that gate in safety.
- The Filth is a gorgeously well-appointed book, boasting ultramodern design, mad ideas on every page and some of the most eye-poppingly tasty art this side of the Tate.
- Fortunately, we're the only two people stupid enough to be out at that time in the morning and no one can witness the mad behaviour that is taking place in the bay.
- A blind pilot is not as mad an idea as it sounds, Hilton-Barber explains.
- He was too young to understand Akhenaten's mad ideas; many adults had problems comprehending them.
- Maybe a safety harness for your pet isn't such a barking mad idea after all.
- "I enjoy organising events but this time we've gone really mad.
- But I liked the fact that its writer and director, Debbie Isitt, is very young, with lots of mad ideas and was up for improvisation.
- Back in the 1950s, John Stewart, a Glasgow-born theatre director, had a mad idea which had all the hallmarks of disaster about it.
- It was a completely mad idea, but in a fit of complete and unquestioned insanity I chose to take a swing at it despite my legitimate concerns.
- In the Sixties, there was this mad idea that we could absorb all our daily needs in little pills, the kind of things that astronauts took with them.
- When I visited her, I saw notebooks full of her mad ideas.
- One might think, based on the static state of our bird list, that the Core Team has abandoned the mad quest to see all of the world's birds.
- Alien abductions, for example, was a mad belief Britons were far too sophisticated to embrace.
Synonyms foolish, insane, stupid, lunatic, foolhardy, idiotic, irrational, unreasonable, illogical, zany, senseless, nonsensical, absurd, impractical, silly, inane, asinine, ludicrous, wild, unwise, imprudent, preposterous informal crazy, daft, crackpot, crackbrained - 1.2 In a frenzied mental or physical state.
发疯的，发狂的 she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her 她想像亲人们为她担心得要疯了。 it was a mad dash to get ready 经过一阵发疯似的忙乱才准备就绪。 Example sentencesExamples - The scene made him go mad with jealousy, leading to a violent argument with his wife.
- But some of the considerations are artistic and need to be faced by the writer, if he is not to be driven mad with frustration and bitter with disappointment.
- Studying at the art institute, located in the center of the city, Brook looked forward to the mad rush and exciting life of the city.
- Lela looked up, trying to hide her amusement as they saw Stasia, obviously driven mad with jealousy and defeat, throwing random sculptures at the two.
- In a mad dash of effort, Noman climbed over the board like lightning.
- I said to the students, and, mad with anxiety, I took the elevator down, dashed out into the street, crossed on the run, and went into Adriana's house.
- Erial stuck to pure manners and decorum, knowing that any sign of affection to any member of the regiment might drive Dan mad with jealousy or grief.
- There was a mad intensity to everything, it was like some frenetic nightmare, every time I thought of Aykan and his plans and conspiracies.
- It was the longest trip to Versailles ever and I was mad with boredom, for I was burning with excitement to tell Jacqui about a book I read.
- In fact there are some numbers in the Ten operations that drive Kerry Packer mad with envy, and are driving the John Alexander approach to income maximisation at Nine.
- Does this mad rush to abandon our natural sleep cycle to work around the clock really make sense?
- Life is mad with rushing from place to place and job to job.
- In one story, a professor of classics is nearly driven mad with insomnia, which he cures by attending a faculty meeting.
- His eyes gleamed in the dark round face, mad with despair.
- The dance started at seven so there was a mad scramble to get ready.
- She hated the place, and was mad with desire to leave it.
- Everyone in the paper ticket line makes a mad dash back to the kiosks.
- He was being driven mad with all of this waiting.
- There is a fine line between taking the stance of Ebenezer Scrooge, skimping on our generosity to friends and relatives, and going absolutely mad with the plastic.
- Matt was clearly mad with grief, his words laced with a new desperation and an unwelcome spite.
Synonyms overwrought, emotional, uncontrolled, uncontrollable, out of control, unrestrained, unrestrainable, frenzied, in a frenzy, frantic, wild, feverish - 1.3 (of a dog) rabid.
（狗）患狂犬病的 Example sentencesExamples - Then the restrained growl of a mad dog found its way past her curled lips, rasping at the stranger before her who hadn't flinched.
- The sports establishment, of course, is attacking him like a pack of mad dogs.
- I don't have a nail gun but I've used one from a local shop to knock together a gate and a retaining wall that didn't restrain Holly the mad dog.
- The only way you get anywhere with a mad dog is to confront it head-on.
- Do we not kill mad dogs when they become dangerous for our life?
- And all the while I'm thinking, this dog is mad, and blind.
- What shall I do when a mad dog attacks an innocent child?
- This is the ‘furious’ form of rabies, the kind traditionally associated with mad dogs.
Synonyms rabies-infected, foaming at the mouth, hydrophobic
2informal Very enthusiastic about someone or something. 〈非正式〉狂热的，着迷的 in combination another myth is that Scorpios are sex-mad Example sentencesExamples - Mrs Heard was inspired to create the Tractor Ted films when her own children, then aged four, three and one, were mad about farm animals and machinery, but unhappy with the animated videos on offer.
- The truth is I can't leave New York because I'm mad about it, hopelessly in love with this place in a way that is usually reserved for a person.
- We've always been mad about each other, always.
- I'm mad about water, and we overlooked the Tamar, which is breathtaking.
- She knows that I am hooked on football, mad about it.
- Whichever way you look at it, the Gold Coast dairy farmer is mad about goats.
- Chimney sweep Steve Howard is so mad about vintage vehicles he has filled his driveway with fire engines - and even wants to buy his own plane.
- He was mad about yoga and was soon lured into dancing, although he felt that he was ‘funny-looking’.
- With every sigh, I become more mad about you, more lost without you.
- Aside from Timothy, all of his friends were raving mad about her.
- They are both mad about the season's bright colours as well as the sophisticated button, beaded and flower detail to be found everywhere.
- Jack, who is mad about trains, Thomas The Tank Engine and Bob The Builder, is due to start school in September.
- Dad is mad about sport, particularly baseball, and not only did he become the coach for our town's youth softball team, he also coached the freshman girls' team at my high school.
- Luke, 11, was mad about trains and Harry Potter, and Aimee, 13, loved fairies.
- Although he was mad about films, he didn't neglect studies.
- Julian is so mad about vacs that he volunteers to clean up at his after-school club and always keeps the carpets spick and span at home.
- And apparently she is crazy mad head over heels in love with me.
- Peter was extremely proud of his children and very happy with Kayce, who took care of him, who protected him, who was just mad about him.
- When it comes to sports, India is mad about cricket.
- In fact the girls are so mad about the boys that every album, poster and article ever produced about the lads takes pride of place in the girl's homes.
Synonyms enthusiastic, passionate, impassioned, keen on ardent, zealous, fervent, avid, eager, fervid, fanatical, addicted to, devoted to, infatuated with, in love with, hot for informal crazy, potty, dotty, nuts, wild, hooked on, gone on North American informal nutso - 2.1British Very exciting.
〈英，非正式〉非常令人激动的，非常令人兴奋的 Example sentencesExamples - The rest of the class seemed to get the idea soon enough and before long the group was chattering in mad excitement.
- In the audience it was both a mad mayhem of frenetic bouncing and a sea of staring faces intrigued and in awe.
- I had a sudden uncontrollable desire to be in some mad city on the other side of the world again.
- His production's got people mad excited, with everyone wanting a piece of the pie.
- The Siamese leaped around in mad excitement, his tail now swishing like a badly excited dog.
- In fact once he deciphers the code, he runs to his brother in a mad fit of excitement.
- The finale to our visit came the very next evening when we were taken on a VIP visit to the Regency Casino for a mad night of wild abandon at the slot machines.
Synonyms unrestrained, uncontrolled, uninhibited, wild, abandoned, overpowering, overwhelming, excited, frenzied, frantic, frenetic, ebullient, energetic, boisterous
3informal Very angry. 〈非正式〉非常恼火的；狂怒的 Example sentencesExamples - Michelle was glaring at me… I had no idea why she was mad at me.
- A few weeks back I was really, really mad about not being able to vote in the upcoming presidential election.
- I'm mad with the council and ready for an argument tomorrow.
- If you put in the wrong directions, people get quite mad at you.
- Selena was more than mad at her daughter; she was furious.
- Her claim is that the judgments you make of someone you're mad at, hurt by, or angry with, invariably apply to yourself.
- How could I be mad at you for defending yourself?
- The same thought had crossed Adam's mind, but he was determined not to spoil this trip by getting mad with the little scoundrel.
- When he spoke, he sounded angry, and I wondered why he was mad at us.
- I ask her to at least tell me why she's mad at me and she says, ‘I'm sorry, I can't,’ and hangs up on me.
- The Hos were always mad at somebody, and somebody was always furious with the Hos.
- When I yell to get their attention, they get mad at me.
- I've never had a friend get so mad with me that they turn off the phone and not turn it back on for two days.
- ‘He gets mad with himself because he can't do stuff that he used to, like crawling and standing up,’ she said.
- It took me awhile to do the right thing and apologize for saying something hurtful - when I was really mad at myself for not taking care of business.
- I hope you're not totally mad with me for snapping at you the past few days, but I guess you aren't because you still came through when I needed a shoulder to cry on.
- His voice sounded more than just confused, it was tired and irritated too, mad at the world.
- I have to admit, I got kind of mad at Jeni because she really wasn't taking my enraged rants very seriously.
- Now don't be mad with me, because it's not entirely my fault that this is happening.
- I got so mad with my older brother just then, and I decided myself, that I would tell Mama and Papa about it that night.
Synonyms angry, furious, infuriated, irate, raging, enraged, fuming, blazing, flaming mad, blazing mad, in a towering rage, incensed, wrathful, seeing red, cross, indignant, exasperated, irritated, berserk, out of control, beside oneself informal livid, spare, wild, aerated informal, dated waxy, in a wax North American informal sore become very angry, lose one's temper, get in a rage, rant, rant and rave, fulminate go crazy informal explode, burst, go off the deep end, go ape, flip, flip one's lid British informal do one's nut North American informal flip one's wig vulgar slang go apeshit 4US informal Great; remarkable. I got mad respect for him this author has mad skills with the written word Example sentencesExamples - We watch Chelsea ace her first test, so we know she's got mad skills.
- Mad love and respect to both of you!
- I give him mad props for keeping his stuff together.
- But I have to give mad credit to Jennifer Lawrence.
- I give mad credits to Annalise and Garrett - those two kids' performances are nothing short of emotional and inspiring.
- The girls love her and she's got mad zombie-killing skills.
- I have mad love for my dude.
- I have mad respect for the filmmakers for being at a place where most other folks would rather run away from.
adverb madmæd US informal as submodifier Very; extremely. he was mad cool—we immediately hit it off Example sentencesExamples - It was mad foggy.
- And it was mad funky and soulful.
- It's mad topical.
- Imagine that, it's mad underrated in my mind.
- New York is a mad expensive city and real estate is not easy to come by.
- She comes off as mad unlikeable, I gotta be honest.
- Smoking weed used to make me mad emotional.
- Nicki thought his performance was "mad fly."
- Poor Carly looks mad uncomfortable and gives a quick side-eye to the camera.
Synonyms very, exceedingly, exceptionally, especially, extraordinarily, to a fault, in the extreme, extra, tremendously, immensely, vastly, hugely, abundantly, intensely, acutely, singularly, significantly, distinctly, outstandingly, uncommonly, unusually, decidedly, particularly, eminently, supremely, highly, remarkably, really, truly, mightily, thoroughly
verbmadding, mads, madded madmæd [with object]archaic Make (someone) mad. had I but seen thy picture in this plight, it would have madded me Example sentencesExamples - For Mrs. Bleecker was very wrathful, Euan, and Lana's indiscretions madded her.
- A wise citizen, I know not whence, had a scold to his wife: when she brawled, he played on his drum, and by that means madded her more, because she saw that he would not be moved.
Phrasesinformal Allow oneself to get carried away by enthusiasm or excitement. 〈非正式〉纵情欢乐 let's go mad and splash out 让我们纵情欢乐，大把大把地花钱吧。 Example sentencesExamples - During the 80's the UK went mad for the more obscure sports of snooker and darts.
- So it was with some bemusement that the village went mad with delight verging on delirium when none other than Two Jags himself made his stunning announcement.
- The audience went mad with excitement when the elephant stepped on to the stage.
- Stylists from Vogue and Elle went mad for them and Gordon's collections are now available in Harvey Nichols, Graham and Green and Egg.
- Then we scored for a second time and we went mad again shouting ‘we've won’ but then we realised it was disallowed.
- I had to wait to find out if I'd won and when my dad told me I went mad.
- Seeing their fans going mad as we played was one of the highlights of our time.
- ‘I was behind the goal when he kicked it and went mad - I just love the game,’ she said.
- Keegan jogs out from behind the entrance curtains to the sound of Oasis classic ‘Rock and Roll Star’ and the home fans go mad for it.
- I took it over, all her friends went mad for it and I came back with orders for 20 more.
Synonyms become frenzied, become uncontrollable, lose control, erupt, boil over
informal With great intensity, energy, or enthusiasm. 〈非正式〉发疯似的；狂热地；拼命地；猛烈地 我发疯似的奔跑。 Example sentencesExamples - My eyes are hurting like mad, this means I will probably have a cold soon.
- It was busy - four weeks to Christmas and all the normal people are shopping like mad.
- On Saturday morning every bone and muscle was hurting like mad but we still had to soldier on.
- Picking up speed to escape imminent danger, he ran like mad to the finishing line.
- All of a sudden, Athena, sitting in front of her laptop, began to type like mad.
- The seven were still together and with the heads down they sprinted like mad for the line.
- My pedals are squeaking like mad, despite liberal lubrication.
- The two looked at each other for a second, then fired like crazy and ran like mad.
- The next morning all the servants were running around like mad preparing for the party that evening.
- I swam like mad towards the surface, harder than I've ever swum in my life, breathing the last of my air.
Synonyms fast, furiously, as fast as possible, as fast as one's legs can carry one, hurriedly, quickly, rapidly, speedily, hastily energetically, enthusiastically, madly, with a will, for all one is worth, passionately, intensely, ardently, fervently
(as) mad as a box of frogs informal Completely insane; crazy. 〈非正式〉彻底疯狂的 of late, he has been behaving in a manner that suggests he's as mad as a box of frogs Example sentencesExamples - My fish is as mad as a box of Frogs, he just swims at top speed around the tank and then lies shagged out on the bottom for ages.
- He seems able to frighten the life out of MPs and really does come across as being as mad as a box of frogs.
- Your eccentric behaviour is regarded as a sign of creative literary genius: anyone else is just as mad as a box of frogs.
- I wish she would retire from the public eye, be elusive, continue to cultivate the mad as a box of frogs image by all means, but stop talking and concentrate on the singing.
- The real Tara is as mad as a box of frogs, a bit eccentric, very childlike, but intelligent with a good brain—I just don't always use it.
Synonyms insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouth
informal Completely insane; crazy. 〈非正式〉彻底疯狂的 he's indisputably a genius, but he's also mad as a hatter Example sentencesExamples - She was obviously as mad as a hatter was, and all I wanted to do now was to go home.
- As long as you temper your unrestrained approach to life with occasional periods of sanity - and do your best not to get arrested - it's completely acceptable to be as mad as a hatter.
- He has earned quite a reputation for being as mad as a hatter on the field.
- ‘He is as mad as a hatter and in to everything,’ said friend Lesley Gill, who used to work with Brian in the Newbridge branch of Dunnes Stores.
- To prove there is nothing as mad as a hatter, Jane Bom-Bane unveils her Greatest Hats at The Shed, Brawby Village Hall, near Malton, on October 25.
- Robert Wade's father, the late Duke of Carnon, had been as mad as a hatter, as had two of his sisters.
- She's mad as a hatter but that bunch of loonies will love her.
- ‘Being John Malkovich ‘takes you into a tunnel where you crawl straight ahead on all fours toward a light, and you think maybe Lewis Carroll's waiting at the other end, because it's all very surreal and as mad as a hatter.’
- She received demented letters from a mental asylum escapee, and yet it was she who ended up mad as a hatter.
- She's rude, insensitive, and quite possibly mad as a hatter.
Synonyms insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouth
informal Extremely enthusiastic. 〈非正式〉极其狂热的 some men are mad keen on football 有些男人对足球极其狂热。 Example sentencesExamples - At the moment he is mad keen on his trendy new trainers - ‘skateboarding shoes from California!’
- My wife is mad keen on gardening, and nothing makes her more happy than a nice looking hanging basket or a flower tub.
- Six foot two, mad keen on sports, Craig Flatman seems every inch the typical teenager.
- Chelsea has always been the place for the mad keen gardener to see, try and even buy all the newest and most desirable plants, pots and accessories.
- When we heard he was mad keen on Beckham, we thought it would be nice to get him something signed by the man himself.
- ‘The French are mad keen on cycling,’ said the Legion's organiser, Nick Hamner.
- Tony had been mad keen on archaeology since boyhood and, as his granddad was a market gardener, was already skilled at digging.
- The Namibians are mad keen anglers and are extremely knowledgeable, competent, kind, helpful and dedicated to giving their clients the best possible trip.
- You're mad keen on history - what's your favourite fact about London's past?
- Tony Heart is himself a mad keen angler and he works extremely hard at putting his anglers over the abundant quality fish; his spacious boat is purpose built for angling and cruises effortlessly at 14/15 knots.
OriginOld English gemǣd(e)d 'maddened', participial form related to gemād 'mad', of Germanic origin. In English mad has always meant ‘insane’. In extreme cases a person can be as mad as a hatter or as mad as a March hare. The comparison with hatters has a sound scientific basis: in the past some hatters really did become mentally ill. Felt hats were made from fur, and one of the processes in their manufacture involved brushing a solution of mercurous nitrate on to the fur to make the fibres mat together. As a result of inhaling the mercury fumes some hat-makers suffered from mercury poisoning, which can produce symptoms such as confused speech, hallucinations, and loss of memory. The phrase was around in the 1830s, but from 1865 it was popularized by the Mad Hatter, one of the characters in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. As mad as a March hare arose from the excitable behaviour of hares at the beginning of the breeding season. ‘Mad, bad, and dangerous to know’ was how Lady Caroline Lamb described the poet Lord Byron after their first meeting at a ball in 1812. Byron was a dashing figure whose name gave rise to the adjective Byronic for a man who is alluringly dark, mysterious, and moody. ‘ Mad Dogs and Englishmen / Go out in the midday sun’ is the beginning of a 1931 song by the English dramatist, actor, and composer Noël Coward. The word madding is a rather poetic way of saying ‘acting madly’. It is most familiar through the phrase far from the madding crowd, ‘private or secluded’. Many will associate it with the title of one of Thomas Hardy's classic novels, but Hardy took the title from a line in Thomas Gray's poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard’, published in 1751: ‘Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife’. Mad scientists have been with us since the 1940s, but mad cow disease for bovine spongiform encephalopathy only since the 1980s.
Rhymesad, add, Allahabad, bad, Baghdad, bedad, begad, cad, Chad, clad, dad, egad, fad, forbade, gad, glad, grad, had, lad, pad, plaid, rad, Riyadh, sad, scad, shad, Strad, tad, trad abbreviation Mutual (or mutually) assured destruction.
adjectivemædmad 1informal Very angry. 〈非正式〉非常恼火的；狂怒的 they were mad at each other Example sentencesExamples - Selena was more than mad at her daughter; she was furious.
- Now don't be mad with me, because it's not entirely my fault that this is happening.
- Her claim is that the judgments you make of someone you're mad at, hurt by, or angry with, invariably apply to yourself.
- I have to admit, I got kind of mad at Jeni because she really wasn't taking my enraged rants very seriously.
- I've never had a friend get so mad with me that they turn off the phone and not turn it back on for two days.
- How could I be mad at you for defending yourself?
- It took me awhile to do the right thing and apologize for saying something hurtful - when I was really mad at myself for not taking care of business.
- I ask her to at least tell me why she's mad at me and she says, ‘I'm sorry, I can't,’ and hangs up on me.
- His voice sounded more than just confused, it was tired and irritated too, mad at the world.
- When I yell to get their attention, they get mad at me.
- I hope you're not totally mad with me for snapping at you the past few days, but I guess you aren't because you still came through when I needed a shoulder to cry on.
- I got so mad with my older brother just then, and I decided myself, that I would tell Mama and Papa about it that night.
- Michelle was glaring at me… I had no idea why she was mad at me.
- I'm mad with the council and ready for an argument tomorrow.
- When he spoke, he sounded angry, and I wondered why he was mad at us.
- The same thought had crossed Adam's mind, but he was determined not to spoil this trip by getting mad with the little scoundrel.
- A few weeks back I was really, really mad about not being able to vote in the upcoming presidential election.
- ‘He gets mad with himself because he can't do stuff that he used to, like crawling and standing up,’ she said.
- If you put in the wrong directions, people get quite mad at you.
- The Hos were always mad at somebody, and somebody was always furious with the Hos.
Synonyms angry, furious, infuriated, irate, raging, enraged, fuming, blazing, flaming mad, blazing mad, in a towering rage, incensed, wrathful, seeing red, cross, indignant, exasperated, irritated, berserk, out of control, beside oneself become very angry, lose one's temper, get in a rage, rant, rant and rave, fulminate 2British Mentally ill; insane. 有精神病的；精神严重失常的；疯的 he felt as if he were going mad 他觉得自己简直要发疯了。 Example sentencesExamples - It's kind of nutty, kind of mad and that's exactly the kind of art that we like.
- ‘She went mad and started throwing stock around the shop,’ said Mr Brown, who has run the family business for 16 years.
- In The Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys drew a haunting portrait of the young Mrs Rochester before she went mad and ended her days in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
- Posterity has called her mad: a schizophrenic.
- The narrator is convinced someone is haunting him, taking possession of his mind, making him think mad thoughts.
- That is why they are declared schizophrenic - mad folk, in common parlance.
- He described him as completely mad, crazy, off the wall.
- It was disturbing to think him mad because he seemed so… normal.
- He looked wet through and filthy at the same time, totally dishevelled, more like the mad scientist than the nutty professor.
- It does not mean that he is in a psychotic state or raving mad, but it indicates your finding in a legal way.
- Swift was as disgusted by the moral disease of human gluttony as he was by its lazy and revolting cures, so much so that he became obsessed with scatological matters and eventually went mad.
- I've disappeared countless times when I thought too many people thought I was mad or bad or loony.
- Charlie was an orphan and had been raised by an old widower man, Mr Smith, who many respected, but everyone thought was slightly mad.
- Why should they be interested in my mad ravings?
- The household is mad, disturbed, yet idyllic and peaceful.
- There was a guy in there clearly barking mad, swearing and being odd.
- But Desdemona, she was nothing but insane, mad, crazy, and that was the thing she passed on.
- Their country was like a man who was losing a great battle, and in his mad and insane mind he was forced to do rash things.
- You have to be mad, you have to be insane, to despair in that way.
- Would I go slowly mad, develop dementia and suffer a painful, lingering death?
Synonyms insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouth - 2.1 (of a person, conduct, or an idea) extremely foolish or ill-advised.
（人、行为、想法）极其愚蠢的；极不明智的 they were all mad to go believing such a cock-and-bull story Example sentencesExamples - But I liked the fact that its writer and director, Debbie Isitt, is very young, with lots of mad ideas and was up for improvisation.
- The future scenario gives him carte blanche to run riot with all these mad ideas.
- As a result, without the discipline that would have come with attempting to appeal to an audience, I gave free rein to any mad idea which popped into my head.
- "I enjoy organising events but this time we've gone really mad.
- When I visited her, I saw notebooks full of her mad ideas.
- Maybe a safety harness for your pet isn't such a barking mad idea after all.
- Back in the 1950s, John Stewart, a Glasgow-born theatre director, had a mad idea which had all the hallmarks of disaster about it.
- The reader isn't expected to take anything on faith or invest belief in any seemingly mad ideas, which is probably just the right tone for this sort of introductory book.
- Fortunately, we're the only two people stupid enough to be out at that time in the morning and no one can witness the mad behaviour that is taking place in the bay.
- The Filth is a gorgeously well-appointed book, boasting ultramodern design, mad ideas on every page and some of the most eye-poppingly tasty art this side of the Tate.
- Alien abductions, for example, was a mad belief Britons were far too sophisticated to embrace.
- In the Sixties, there was this mad idea that we could absorb all our daily needs in little pills, the kind of things that astronauts took with them.
- It was a completely mad idea, but in a fit of complete and unquestioned insanity I chose to take a swing at it despite my legitimate concerns.
- One might think, based on the static state of our bird list, that the Core Team has abandoned the mad quest to see all of the world's birds.
- The trek, that will take approximately seven days to complete, was the result of a mad idea on New Year's Eve.
- He was too young to understand Akhenaten's mad ideas; many adults had problems comprehending them.
- There's no secret code or literary illusion, there's just his own mad thoughts on a page.
- Big cities like London, Paris and New York are all mad ideas to host events of this size.
- A blind pilot is not as mad an idea as it sounds, Hilton-Barber explains.
- You'd have to be totally mad to think you could go through that gate in safety.
Synonyms foolish, insane, stupid, lunatic, foolhardy, idiotic, irrational, unreasonable, illogical, zany, senseless, nonsensical, absurd, impractical, silly, inane, asinine, ludicrous, wild, unwise, imprudent, preposterous - 2.2 In a frenzied mental or physical state.
发疯的，发狂的 she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her 她想像亲人们为她担心得要疯了。 it was a mad dash to get ready 经过一阵发疯似的忙乱才准备就绪。 Example sentencesExamples - There is a fine line between taking the stance of Ebenezer Scrooge, skimping on our generosity to friends and relatives, and going absolutely mad with the plastic.
- Does this mad rush to abandon our natural sleep cycle to work around the clock really make sense?
- Studying at the art institute, located in the center of the city, Brook looked forward to the mad rush and exciting life of the city.
- She hated the place, and was mad with desire to leave it.
- His eyes gleamed in the dark round face, mad with despair.
- In one story, a professor of classics is nearly driven mad with insomnia, which he cures by attending a faculty meeting.
- Lela looked up, trying to hide her amusement as they saw Stasia, obviously driven mad with jealousy and defeat, throwing random sculptures at the two.
- Matt was clearly mad with grief, his words laced with a new desperation and an unwelcome spite.
- In fact there are some numbers in the Ten operations that drive Kerry Packer mad with envy, and are driving the John Alexander approach to income maximisation at Nine.
- Life is mad with rushing from place to place and job to job.
- In a mad dash of effort, Noman climbed over the board like lightning.
- Erial stuck to pure manners and decorum, knowing that any sign of affection to any member of the regiment might drive Dan mad with jealousy or grief.
- It was the longest trip to Versailles ever and I was mad with boredom, for I was burning with excitement to tell Jacqui about a book I read.
- The dance started at seven so there was a mad scramble to get ready.
- The scene made him go mad with jealousy, leading to a violent argument with his wife.
- I said to the students, and, mad with anxiety, I took the elevator down, dashed out into the street, crossed on the run, and went into Adriana's house.
- Everyone in the paper ticket line makes a mad dash back to the kiosks.
- He was being driven mad with all of this waiting.
- But some of the considerations are artistic and need to be faced by the writer, if he is not to be driven mad with frustration and bitter with disappointment.
- There was a mad intensity to everything, it was like some frenetic nightmare, every time I thought of Aykan and his plans and conspiracies.
Synonyms overwrought, emotional, uncontrolled, uncontrollable, out of control, unrestrained, unrestrainable, frenzied, in a frenzy, frantic, wild, feverish - 2.3 (of a dog) rabid.
（狗）患狂犬病的 Example sentencesExamples - I don't have a nail gun but I've used one from a local shop to knock together a gate and a retaining wall that didn't restrain Holly the mad dog.
- This is the ‘furious’ form of rabies, the kind traditionally associated with mad dogs.
- Then the restrained growl of a mad dog found its way past her curled lips, rasping at the stranger before her who hadn't flinched.
- The sports establishment, of course, is attacking him like a pack of mad dogs.
- Do we not kill mad dogs when they become dangerous for our life?
- The only way you get anywhere with a mad dog is to confront it head-on.
- What shall I do when a mad dog attacks an innocent child?
- And all the while I'm thinking, this dog is mad, and blind.
Synonyms rabies-infected, foaming at the mouth, hydrophobic
3informal Very enthusiastic about someone or something. 〈非正式〉狂热的，着迷的 I wasn't mad about mountain bikes in combination a sports-mad nation Example sentencesExamples - Although he was mad about films, he didn't neglect studies.
- And apparently she is crazy mad head over heels in love with me.
- Mrs Heard was inspired to create the Tractor Ted films when her own children, then aged four, three and one, were mad about farm animals and machinery, but unhappy with the animated videos on offer.
- Chimney sweep Steve Howard is so mad about vintage vehicles he has filled his driveway with fire engines - and even wants to buy his own plane.
- Whichever way you look at it, the Gold Coast dairy farmer is mad about goats.
- He was mad about yoga and was soon lured into dancing, although he felt that he was ‘funny-looking’.
- Dad is mad about sport, particularly baseball, and not only did he become the coach for our town's youth softball team, he also coached the freshman girls' team at my high school.
- Jack, who is mad about trains, Thomas The Tank Engine and Bob The Builder, is due to start school in September.
- They are both mad about the season's bright colours as well as the sophisticated button, beaded and flower detail to be found everywhere.
- Luke, 11, was mad about trains and Harry Potter, and Aimee, 13, loved fairies.
- We've always been mad about each other, always.
- In fact the girls are so mad about the boys that every album, poster and article ever produced about the lads takes pride of place in the girl's homes.
- Peter was extremely proud of his children and very happy with Kayce, who took care of him, who protected him, who was just mad about him.
- When it comes to sports, India is mad about cricket.
- Aside from Timothy, all of his friends were raving mad about her.
- The truth is I can't leave New York because I'm mad about it, hopelessly in love with this place in a way that is usually reserved for a person.
- I'm mad about water, and we overlooked the Tamar, which is breathtaking.
- With every sigh, I become more mad about you, more lost without you.
- She knows that I am hooked on football, mad about it.
- Julian is so mad about vacs that he volunteers to clean up at his after-school club and always keeps the carpets spick and span at home.
Synonyms enthusiastic, passionate, impassioned, keen on - 3.1British Very exciting.
〈英，非正式〉非常令人激动的，非常令人兴奋的 Example sentencesExamples - I had a sudden uncontrollable desire to be in some mad city on the other side of the world again.
- His production's got people mad excited, with everyone wanting a piece of the pie.
- In the audience it was both a mad mayhem of frenetic bouncing and a sea of staring faces intrigued and in awe.
- In fact once he deciphers the code, he runs to his brother in a mad fit of excitement.
- The Siamese leaped around in mad excitement, his tail now swishing like a badly excited dog.
- The rest of the class seemed to get the idea soon enough and before long the group was chattering in mad excitement.
- The finale to our visit came the very next evening when we were taken on a VIP visit to the Regency Casino for a mad night of wild abandon at the slot machines.
Synonyms unrestrained, uncontrolled, uninhibited, wild, abandoned, overpowering, overwhelming, excited, frenzied, frantic, frenetic, ebullient, energetic, boisterous
4US informal Great; remarkable. I got mad respect for him she had mad skills in the kitchen Example sentencesExamples - Mad love and respect to both of you!
- But I have to give mad credit to Jennifer Lawrence.
- The girls love her and she's got mad zombie-killing skills.
- I give him mad props for keeping his stuff together.
- I have mad respect for the filmmakers for being at a place where most other folks would rather run away from.
- We watch Chelsea ace her first test, so we know she's got mad skills.
- I give mad credits to Annalise and Garrett - those two kids' performances are nothing short of emotional and inspiring.
- I have mad love for my dude.
adverbmædmad US informal as submodifier Very; extremely. he was mad cool—we immediately hit it off Example sentencesExamples - It's mad topical.
- Smoking weed used to make me mad emotional.
- Nicki thought his performance was "mad fly."
- New York is a mad expensive city and real estate is not easy to come by.
- Poor Carly looks mad uncomfortable and gives a quick side-eye to the camera.
- And it was mad funky and soulful.
- It was mad foggy.
- Imagine that, it's mad underrated in my mind.
- She comes off as mad unlikeable, I gotta be honest.
Synonyms very, exceedingly, exceptionally, especially, extraordinarily, to a fault, in the extreme, extra, tremendously, immensely, vastly, hugely, abundantly, intensely, acutely, singularly, significantly, distinctly, outstandingly, uncommonly, unusually, decidedly, particularly, eminently, supremely, highly, remarkably, really, truly, mightily, thoroughly
verbmædmad [with object]archaic Make mad or insane. 〈古〉使发疯，使疯狂 Example sentencesExamples - A wise citizen, I know not whence, had a scold to his wife: when she brawled, he played on his drum, and by that means madded her more, because she saw that he would not be moved.
- For Mrs. Bleecker was very wrathful, Euan, and Lana's indiscretions madded her.
Phrasesinformal With great intensity, energy, or enthusiasm. 〈非正式〉发疯似的；狂热地；拼命地；猛烈地 我发疯似的奔跑。 Example sentencesExamples - The two looked at each other for a second, then fired like crazy and ran like mad.
- Picking up speed to escape imminent danger, he ran like mad to the finishing line.
- It was busy - four weeks to Christmas and all the normal people are shopping like mad.
- The seven were still together and with the heads down they sprinted like mad for the line.
- The next morning all the servants were running around like mad preparing for the party that evening.
- My pedals are squeaking like mad, despite liberal lubrication.
- My eyes are hurting like mad, this means I will probably have a cold soon.
- On Saturday morning every bone and muscle was hurting like mad but we still had to soldier on.
- All of a sudden, Athena, sitting in front of her laptop, began to type like mad.
- I swam like mad towards the surface, harder than I've ever swum in my life, breathing the last of my air.
Synonyms fast, furiously, as fast as possible, as fast as one's legs can carry one, hurriedly, quickly, rapidly, speedily, hastily energetically, enthusiastically, madly, with a will, for all one is worth, passionately, intensely, ardently, fervently
informal Completely insane. 〈非正式〉彻底疯狂的 Example sentencesExamples - She was obviously as mad as a hatter was, and all I wanted to do now was to go home.
- He has earned quite a reputation for being as mad as a hatter on the field.
- Robert Wade's father, the late Duke of Carnon, had been as mad as a hatter, as had two of his sisters.
- To prove there is nothing as mad as a hatter, Jane Bom-Bane unveils her Greatest Hats at The Shed, Brawby Village Hall, near Malton, on October 25.
- She received demented letters from a mental asylum escapee, and yet it was she who ended up mad as a hatter.
- As long as you temper your unrestrained approach to life with occasional periods of sanity - and do your best not to get arrested - it's completely acceptable to be as mad as a hatter.
- She's rude, insensitive, and quite possibly mad as a hatter.
- ‘He is as mad as a hatter and in to everything,’ said friend Lesley Gill, who used to work with Brian in the Newbridge branch of Dunnes Stores.
- ‘Being John Malkovich ‘takes you into a tunnel where you crawl straight ahead on all fours toward a light, and you think maybe Lewis Carroll's waiting at the other end, because it's all very surreal and as mad as a hatter.’
- She's mad as a hatter but that bunch of loonies will love her.
Synonyms insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouth
OriginOld English gemǣd(e)d ‘maddened’, participial form related to gemād ‘mad’, of Germanic origin. abbreviation Mutual (or mutually) assured destruction.
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