mad
roused to anger
How often you will meet it
Rank 997 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 18,307 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- roused to anger also: huffy, sore stayed huffy a good whileshe gets mad when you wake her up so early
- affected with madness or insanity also: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, sick, unbalanced a man who had gone mad
- marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion also: delirious, excited, frantic, unrestrained a crowd of delirious baseball fanssomething frantic in their gaiety
- very foolish also: harebrained, insane harebrained ideastook insane risks behind the wheel
mad in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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My husband was rather mad about roses.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Elemental mad ramping of ravening waters— Yet Christ on the Mount, and the dove in her nest!
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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She repeated to herself that she must be mad to have thus become attached to a stranger.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Undoubtedly it was the detective, Howells, who followed him, hoping, perhaps, that he would make some mad effort at escape.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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XLV He reeled, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space; 375 Then, like a wild-cat mad with wounds, Sprang right at Astur's face.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1