mad

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   affected with madness or insanity

   The mad patient was usually docile.

2. 2
   adj

   Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.

   You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?

3. 3
   adj

   Angry, annoyed.

   Are you mad at me?

4. 4
   adj

   Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.

   Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.

5. 5
   adj

   Bizarre; incredible.

   It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.

6. 6
   adj

   Wildly confused or excited.

   to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred

7. 7
   adj

   Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.

   Aren't you just mad for that red dress?

8. 8
   adj

   Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.

   a mad dog

Etymology

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”), from Proto-Germanic *maidaz ("weak; crippled"; compare Old English gemād (“silly, mad”), Old High German gimeit (“foolish, crazy”), literary German gemeit (“mad, insane”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (gamaiþs, “crippled”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- ("to change"; compare Old Irish máel (“bald, dull”), Old Lithuanian ap-maitinti (“to wound”), Sanskrit मेथति (méthati, “he…