Definition of mad

"mad" in the adjective sense

1. huffy, mad, sore

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"

2. brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged

affected with madness or insanity

"a man who had gone mad"

3. delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained

marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion

"a crowd of delirious baseball fans"

"something frantic in their gaiety"

"a mad whirl of pleasure"

4. harebrained, insane, mad

very foolish

"harebrained ideas"

"took insane risks behind the wheel"

"a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"

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Quotations for mad

As mad as a March hare. [ Proverb ]

A mad world, my masters. [ Middleton ]

For mad words deaf ears. [ Proverb ]

Fools are not mad folks. [ Shakespeare ]

Mad dogs cannot live long. [ Proverb ]

Mad people think others mad. [ Proverb ]

The mad dog bites his master. [ Proverb ]

An undevout astronomer is mad. [ Young ]

Cupid is a knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nights Dream ]

Not poetry, but prose run mad. [ Pope ]

Choleric men are blind and mad. [ Proverb ]

A mad parish must have a mad priest. [ Proverb ]

A mad beast must have a sober driver. [ Proverb ]

As mad as the baited bull at Stamford. [ Proverb ]

Who loves law, dies either mad or poor. [ Middleton ]

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy! [ William Shakespeare ]

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad. [ Mrs. Browning ]

The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poison more deadly than a mad-dog's tooth. [ William Shakespeare ]

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had:
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. [ Pope ]

I am not mad; I would to heaven I were!
For then, 'tis like I should forget myself:
O, if I could, what grief should I forget! [ William Shakespeare ]

No sort of head-cloths will fit a mad head. [ Proverb ]

Oh! I will curse thee til! thy frighted soul
Runs mad with horror. [ Lee ]

Consider how the desperate fight;
Despair strikes wild, - but often fatal too -
And in the mad encounter wins success. [ Havard ]

The man is either mad, or he is making verses. [ Horace ]

Mad bulls cannot be tied up with a packthread. [ Proverb ]

If she do frown, it is not in hate of you,
But rather to beget more love in you:
If she do chide, it is not to have you gone;
For why, the fools are mad if left alone.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For - get you gone - she doth not mean - away. [ William Shakespeare ]

Patience upon force is a medicine for a mad dog. [ Proverb ]

You will never be mad, you are of so many minds. [ Proverb ]

Dreams where thought, in fancy's maze, runs mad. [ Young ]

He's madder than mad who sells heaven for earth. [ Proverb ]

One mad action is not enough to prove a man mad. [ Proverb ]

A mad bull is not to be tied up with a packthread. [ Proverb ]

It is a mad hare that will be caught with a tabor. [ Proverb ]

Better mad with all the world than wise all alone. [ French Proverb ]

Better have no children than sottish and mad ones. [ Proverb ]

Try to tame a mad horse, but knock him not at head. [ Proverb ]

Love is as mad as Ajax, it kills sheep, so it kills me. [ Proverb ]

That rabbit is mad that makes a league with the ferret. [ Proverb ]

Will without reason is blind, and against reason is mad. [ Proverb ]

He that would hang his dog gives out first that he is mad. [ Proverb ]

Children, when little, make parents fools, when great, mad. [ Proverb ]

He drags his chain, and yet says it is others that are mad. [ Proverb ]

Wicked men, like mad-men, have sometimes their lucid intervals. [ Proverb ]

Superstition renders a man a fool, and skepticism makes him mad. [ Proverb ]

He that cannot ride a gentle horse must not attempt to back a mad colt. [ Proverb ]

The jealous is possessed by a fine mad devil and a dull spirit at once. [ Lavater ]

You must be mad with the insane unless you wish to be left quite alone. [ Petronius ]

Childien when they are little make parents fools, when they are great they make them mad. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place, credit decayed, and people that have of nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [ Horace ]

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. [ Montaigne ]

Many-colored, sunshine-loving, spring-betokening bee! yellow bee, so mad for love of early-blooming flowers! [ Professor Wilson ]

Learn a man's limitations. If you make him bite off more than he can chew, don't get mad at him if he has to spit it out. [ George Horace Lorimer ]

Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes - I will be brief: Your noble son is mad! [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools. [ Burke ]

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [ Varro ]

It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was running to go fight in another fight, away from the first fight. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? [ Yogi Berra ]

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. [ Burke ]

It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Martha cook up about a hundred drumsticks, the the guy at the Marineland says, You can't throw chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish. Sure they eat fish, if that's all you give them. Man, wise up. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

mad in Scrabble®

The word mad is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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mad in Words With Friends™

The word mad is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of mad

2 letter words in mad (3 words)

3 letter words in mad (Anagrams) (2 words)

mad + 1 blank (9 words)

Word Growth involving mad

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Longer words containing mad

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