mad | Lernwerd

Forms

1.Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
- He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.
- You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?
- I have heard my grandsire say full oft, / Extremity of griefs would make men mad.
2.Angry, annoyed.(informal)
- 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.
- Are you mad at me?
- 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.Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.(informal)
- I'm not mad at this little house, though.
- But I mean, once the flow was there, nobody was mad at it.
- Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.
4.Bizarre; incredible.(informal)
- It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.

1.To madden, to anger, to frustrate.(colloquial)
- 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 […].

Uncommon· #2160

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”)