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word mad
definition
adjective
Someone who is mad has a mind that does not work in a normal way, with the result that their behaviour is very strange .
She was afraid of going mad.
He was driven to the brink of madness.
You use mad to describe people or things that you think are very foolish.
You'd be mad to work with him again.
Isn't that a rather mad idea?
It is political madness.
If you say that someone is mad, you mean that they are very angry.
You're just mad at me because I don't want to go.
I'm pretty mad about it, I can tell you.
If you are mad about or mad on something or someone, you like them very much indeed.
She's not as mad about sport as I am.
He's mad about you.
He's mad on trains.
...his football-mad son.
He's not power-mad.
Mad behaviour is wild and uncontrolled .
You only have an hour to complete the game so it's a mad dash against the clock.
The audience went mad.
Down in the streets people were waving madly.
inflections maddermaddestmadnessmadnessmadly
cefr-level B1

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