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Definition: MAD |
MAD1. P. p. of Made. Intransitive verb1. To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding. Noun1. An earthworm. 2. The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy. 3. A slattern. Superlative1. Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle. 2. Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person. 3. Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog. 4. Extravagant; immoderate. 5. Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. 6. Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform. 7. Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane. Transitive verb1. To make mad or furious; to madden. |
Date "MAD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Mad \Mad\, adjective. [Comparative Madder; superlative Maddest.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Adjective. Source: From English "mad" meaning unrestrained enthusiasm or inexplicable. Definition: Many, alot; extreme; very. Context: Used in all contexts. Social Source: Residents of New York City's South Bronx. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Mad, Angry. The frequent use of mad in the sense of angry should be avoided. A person who is insane is mad. A dog that has hydrophobia is mad. Figuratively we say mad, with rage, mad with terror, mad with pain; but to be vexed, or angry, or out of patience, does not justify the use of so strong a term as mad. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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MAD is an acronym with several different uses in the English language and in its capitalized form is the name of a magazine which is popular among adolescents.Specific uses include:
- MAD Magazine
- Barajas International Airport (IATA Airport Code)
- magnetic airborne detector
- magnetic anomaly detector
- mutual assured destruction
- Moroccan dirham (ISO currency code)
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MAD is an American humor magazine founded by publisher William Gaines and editor Harvey Kurtzman in 1952. Aimed at young readers, it satirized American culture. It deflated stuffed shirts, poked fun at common foibles. Its publisher, Gaines, had suffered greatly from censorship which had literally destroyed his prior line of EC horror comicss.MAD was first published as a comic book entitled "Tales Calculated To Drive You Mad", written almost entirely by Harvey Kurtzman, but it was converted into a magazine to escape the strictures of the Comics Code Authority, which was imposed in 1955 following Senate hearings on juvenile delinquency. The immediate practical result was that MAD acquired a broader range in both subject matter and presentation. Magazines also had wider distribution than comic books.
Throughout the 1950s "MAD" featured brilliant parodies of American popular culture illustrated by such luminaries as Jack Davis, Bill Elder, and Wallace Wood, each with his own style. They combined a sentimental fondness for the familiar staples of American Culture--such as Archie and Superman, to name two--with a keen joy in exposing the fakery behind the image--see their pieces entitled "Starchie" and "Superduperman."
MAD was noted for its absence of advertising, enabling it to skewer the excesses of a materialist culture without fear of advertiser reprisal. The magazine often featured numerous parodies of ongoing American advertising campaigns. During the 1960s, it satirized such topics as hippies, the Vietnam War, and drug abuse. The magazine gave equal time to counterculture drugs such as pot as well as to mainstream drugs such as tobacco and alcohol. Although one can detect a generally liberal tone, the magazine always slammed Democrats as mercilessly as Republicans.
In a parody of Playboy's "foldout" cheesecake pictures, each issue of MAD from 1964 on featured a "fold-in" on its inside back cover, designed by artist Al Jaffee. A question would be asked, which apparently was illustrated by a picture taking up the bulk of the page. When the page was folded inwards, the inner and outer fourths of the picture combined to give a surprising answer in both picture and words.
Other long-running features included Dave Berg's "The Lighter Side of..." which often satirized the suburban lifestyle, and Antonio Prohias' wordless "Spy vs. Spy," the neverending battle between the Black Spy and the White Spy that has lasted longer than the Cold War which inspired it.
The image most closely associated with the magazine is that of Alfred E. Neuman, the curly-haired boy with a gap-toothed smile and the statement "What? Me worry?" Alfred's image first appeared on the cover of the magazine within the first few years of its existence. The original image of an unamed boy with a goofy grin was a popular humorous graphic many years before MAD adopted it. The character takes his name from Alfred Newman, a member of a well-known family of film composers, who made a series of blackout radio appearances that had amused Kurtzman years earlier.
MAD also provided a showcase for some of the best satirical writers and artists of a generation. Artists such as Mort Drucker, Sergio Aragones, Jack Davis, Bill Elder, Don Martin, and Wallace Wood, and writers like Dick DeBartolo, Frank Jacobs, Tom Koch, and Arnie Kogen appeared regularly in the magazine at various times in its history. Newer contributors include Rick Tulka, Hermann Mejia, Desmond Devlin, Mike Snider, John Caldwell, Bill Wray, Anthony Barbieri, Drew Friedman, Tom Bunk, Barry Liebmann, and many others. Original editor Harvey Kurtzman left in 1956 following a business dispute with Gaines, and was replaced by Al Feldstein, who oversaw the magazine during its greatest heights of circulation. Feldstein retired in 1984, and was replaced by the team of Nick Meglin and John Ficarra, who continue to edit the magazine today.
MAD is often credited by social theorists with filling a vital gap in political satire in the 1950s to 1970s, when Cold War paranoia and a general culture of censorship prevailed in the United States, especially in literature for teens. The rise of such factors as cable television and the Internet seems to have diminished such influence of MAD somewhat, although it remains a widely distributed magazine. In a way, MAD's power has been undone by its own success; what was subversive in the 1950s and 1960s is now commonplace. However, its impact on three generations of humorists is incalculable, as can be seen in the frequent references to MAD Magazine on the animated series "The Simpsons."
For tax reasons, Gaines had sold his company in the early 1960s to the Kinney Corporation, which also acquired Warner Brothers by the end of that decade. Though technically an employee for 30 years, the fiercely independent Gaines was largely permitted to run MAD without corporate interference. Following Gaines' death in 1992, though, MAD became more ingrained within the AOL Time Warner conglomerate. In 2001, the magazine broke its long-standing taboo and began running advertising. A TV show was introduced in 1995 based on the magazine: MAD TV, which aired comedy segements in a fashion similar to Saturday Night Live and SCTV. There is no editorial connection between the sketch comedy series and the magazine. Meanwhile, MAD-related merchandise, which was scarce during the Gaines years, has appeared regularly.
It has had many imitators including Crazy, Sick and Cracked. But as it carries on past its 50th year, MAD has outlasted them all.
MAD is published in local versions in many countries, including The Netherlands and Sweden (see for instance the MAD parody of F---ing Amal in Swedish [1]).
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MAD stands for Michigan Algorithm Decoder, and was developed by the University of Michigan for use with their operating system, MTS.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "MAD programming language."
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A magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) is a piece of equipment that is used to detect minute variations in the Earth's magnetic field. The term refers specifically to magnetometers used by military forces to detect submarines. Such a mass of ferromagnetic material disturbs the magnetic field and can be detected.MAD devices are usually mounted on aircraft. In order to detect any anomaly, the aircraft aligns itself with the Earth's magnetic field, creating a constant and even 'noise' against which anomalies can be detected. To reduce interference from electrical equipment aboard the aircraft the 'MAD head' is placed out from the aircraft on a boom or towed device. Even so the aircraft must be very near the submarine's position to detect the change or anomaly. The detection range is normally related to the distance between the sensor and the submarine. The size of the submarine and its hull material composition also determines the detection range.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Magnetic anomaly detector."
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Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is the doctrine of a situation in which any use of nuclear weapons by either of two opposing sides would result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender. The doctrine assumes that each side has enough weaponry to destroy the other side and that either side, if attacked for any reason by the other, would retaliate with equal or greater force. The expected result is that the battle would escalate to the point where each side brought about the other's total and assured destruction - and, potentially, those of allies as well.Assuming that neither side would be so irrational as to risk its own destruction, neither side would dare to launch a first strike as the other would launch on warning (also called fail deadly). The payoff of this doctrine was expected to be tense but stable peace.
The primary application of this doctrine occurred during the Cold War (1950s to 1990s) between the United States and Soviet Union, in which MAD was seen as helping to prevent any direct full-scale conflicts between the two nations while they engaged in smaller proxy wars around the world. MAD was part of U.S. strategic doctrine which believed that nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States could best be prevented if neither side could defend itself against the other's nuclear missiles (see Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty). The credibility of the threat being critical to such assurance, each side had to invest substantial capital in weapons, even those not intended for use.
This MAD scenario was often known by the less frightening euphemism "nuclear deterrence".
Critics of the MAD doctrine noted that the acronym MAD fits the word mad (meaning insane) because it depended on several challengable assumptions:
The doctrine was satirized in the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. In the film, the Soviets have a doomsday machine which automatically detects any nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, whereupon it destroys all life on earth by fallout. The film mirrored life in that the nuclear strategist Herman Kahn had actually contemplated such a machine as one strategy in ensuring mutual assured destruction.
- Perfect detection
- No false positives in the equipment and/or procedures that must identify a launch by the other side
- No possibility of camoflaging a launch
- No alternate means of delivery other than a missle (no hiding warheads in an ice cream truck)
- The weaker version of MAD also depends on perfect attribution of the launch. (If you see a launch on the Sino-Russian border, who do you retaliate against?) The stronger version of MAD does not depend on attribution. (If someone launches at you, end the world.)
- Perfect rationality
- No rogue states will develop nuclear weapons (or, if they do, they will stop behaving as rogue states and start to subject themselves to the logic of MAD)
- No rogue commanders on either side at any time with the ability to corrupt the launch decision process
- All leaders with launch capability care about the survival of their subjects
- While MAD does not depend on the assumption that the retaliatory launch system will work perfectly, it does depend on the challengable assumption that no leader with launch capability would strike first and gamble that the opponent's response system would fail
- Inability to defend
- No shelters sufficient to protect population and/or industry
- No development of anti-missle technology or deployment of remedial protective gear
The fall of the Soviet Union has reduced tensions between Russia and the United States and between the United States and China. MAD has been replaced as a model for stability between Russia and the United States as well as between the United States and China. Although the administration of George W. Bush has abrogated the anti-ballistic missile treaty, the limited national missile defense system proposed by the Bush administration is designed to prevent nuclear blackmail by a state with limited nuclear capability and is not planned to alter the nuclear posture between Russia and the United States. MAD's replacement (asymmetric warfare) is designed to take advantage of years of analysis that focussed on finding a concept for stability that did not rely on holding civilian populations hostage.
The Bush administration has approached Russia with the idea of moving away from MAD to a different nuclear policy of total weaponry escalation. Russia has thus far been rather unreceptive to these approaches largely out of fear that a different defense posture would be more advantageous to the United States than to Russia.
Some argue that MAD was abandoned on 25 July 1980 when US President Jimmy Carter adopted the countervailing strategy in Presidential Directive 59. From this date onwards US policy was to win a nuclear war. The planned response to a Soviet attack was no longer to bomb Russian cities and assure their destruction. American nuclear weapons were first to kill the Soviet leadership, then attack military targets, in the hope of a Russian surrender before total destruction of the USSR (and the USA). This policy was further developed by President Ronald Reagan with the announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative (aka Star Wars), aimed at destroying Russian missiles before they reached the US. If SDI had been operational it would have undermined the "assured destruction" required for MAD.
The Bush administration also proposed the use of small nuclear weapons to be used against terrorists in caves. The implication was that nobody would militarily object to this preemptive usage of nuclear weapons, as the US was the only superpower with both nuclear weapons and strong world policy ambitions.
See also:
External links:
- NUTS
- Cold War
- moral equivalence
- game theory
- nuclear disarmament
- nuclear strategy
- RAND Corporation
- weapon of mass destruction
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mutual assured destruction."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MAD | Danish | Marokkansk dirham | Geography |
MAD | Dutch | Marokkaanse dirham | Geography |
MAD | English | Mind Altering Drug | N/A |
MAD | French | Dirham marocain | Geography |
MAD | German | Marokkanischer Dirham | Geography |
MAD | Greek | ντιρχάμ Μαρόκου | Geography |
MAD | Italian | Dirham marocchino | Geography |
MAD | Portuguese | Dirham marroquino | Geography |
MAD | Spanish | Dirham marroquí | Geography |
MAD | Swedish | Marockansk dirham | Geography |
| MAD Policy | English | Mutually-Assured Destruction Policy | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: MADSynonym: furious. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Feverish, febrile, hysterical; delirious, mad, moody, maggoty-headed. |
Excitation | Flaming; boiling over; ebullient, seething; foaming at the mouth; fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal. |
Insanity | Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, it's a world gone mad, Gill (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Boy she's mad at you (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp) The British have always been kind to mad people (Brief Encounter; writing credit: David Lean, written by Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame.) It just seems that you and me have been mad at each other for so long (On Golden Pond; writing credit: Ernest Thompson.) | |
Lyrics | I'm mad about you (Mad About You; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle) Does that whole mad season got ya down (Mad Season; performing artist: Matchbox 20) Making every man mad (Venus; performing artist: Bananarama) Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) It makes me mad at truth (EYES WITHOUT A FACE; performing artist: Billy Idol) | |
Clever | When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. (references; author: Mark Twain) When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Mad Bomber (1972) Mad Dogs & Englishmen (1971) The Mad Love Life of a Hot Vampire (1971) Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) The Mad Monk Guru (1970) | |
Song Titles | World's Gone Mad, The (performing artist: Jitterz) Mad Season (performing artist: Matchbox 20) I Can't Stay Mad At You (performing artist: Skeeter Davis) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Operates with an Anti-Submarine Squadron 23 (VS-23) S2F "Tracker" aircraft (with its MAD boom extended), during a joint Canadian-United States ASW exercise, 16 August 1959. Photographed by PHC Kircher. Credit: NAVY. |  | The mad woman -- for she had become that -- had tried to stab Kathleen. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Uncle Sam don't know whether to get mad or to laugh. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hydrophobia as skeleton led by a mad dog. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Center horse gets chased by mad bull. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Walter Gaylord adjusting cover on bucket that catches the sap from sugar maple tree from which is made maple syrup. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees bec. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pipe line, through which sap runs to sugar house. The sap from sugar maple trees is piped into the house where it is boiled down into maple syrup. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. Walter Gaylord place. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ithaca, New York. Interior of a shack in which a man lived for twenty-five years. His wife would not let him live with her. She was mad at him for having backed a Model T Ford over her on their honeymoon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mary Roberts Rhinehart [sic], adopted member of the Blackfeet Indians snaped [sic] with four chiefs of the tribe in Wash. D.C. today. Chief Mad Plume on her right, Chief Two Gun White Calf on her left ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mad River Valley near Zanesfield, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Mad Cat" by Erris Van Ginkel Commentary: "She took a bite out of my hand after I took this picture :-)." | "My mad teacher :)" by Ariel C. Commentary: "My mad teacher :)." |
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 | Berserk; beside oneself; blazing; carried away; convulsive; crazed; crazy; delirious; distracted; distraught; emotional; excited; agitated; fiery; frantic; frenzied; fuming; furious; impassioned; impetuous; incensed; irrepressible; mad; maddened; nervous. | | Anger; mad; upset; laugh-like; instinctive; autoprotective. |
| Uninhibited; laughing; hysterical; beside oneself; carried away; corybantic; crazy; delighted; drunk; ecstatic; enthused; frenetic; frenzied; happy; intoxicated; mad; overexcited; overwrought; rabid; rapturous; thrilled; transported; wild. | | Anger; frustrated; mad; . |
| Crazy; laugh; insane; insanity; bonkers; cracked; crazed; cuckoo; daft; delirious; demented; deranged; lunatic; mad; maniacal; mental; nuts; nutty; psycho; screw loose; screwball; screwy; unbalanced; unglued; unhinged; unzipped; wacky; whacko. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Anagreon | I both love and do not love, and am mad and am not mad. |
Baltasar Gracian | Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. |
Diogenes | Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. |
Horace | The man is either mad, or he is making verses. |
Juan Ruiz de Alarcon | The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity. |
Miguel De Cervantes | He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. |
William Shakespeare | 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god. |
Young | An undevout astronomer is mad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She must wait a moment, or he would think her mad. |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | Mad Mathesis followed her, full of kindly sympathy |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Look, said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Meanwhile, in spite of all that, and because of all that, his passion was growing, and was growing mad. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Mad! Mad |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | So they got mad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The prion particles associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, also known as mad cow disease) do not have nucleic acid at all, and so they are not inactivated by irradiation, except at extremely high doses. (references) | |
Other TSEs include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, fatal familial insomnia in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle (also known as mad cow disease), scrapie in sheep and goats, and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk. “Prion” is the name given to an abnormal form of protein that appears to be able to cause more and more of its normal form to become malformed, eventually leading to deposits in cells of the central nervous system, and eventually killing these cells. (references) | ||
Business | Another category of home healthcare in called "Maintien à Domicile" (MAD). (references) | |
The mad rush to capitalize on these months often creates a herd mentality. (references) | ||
Almost 20 percent (50,000) of the nurses in France work in private practice, in the homes of MAD patients. (references) | ||
Economic History | Switzerland | BSE, the mad cow disease, has triggered a wave of resesarch and the procurement of relevant equipment. (references) |
France | Recent occurrences of Mad Cow's Disease and Hoof-and-Mouth Disease have shaken consumer confidence and jeopardized the food industry's reputation for high safety standards. (references) | |
Mexico | Best opportunities for U.S. suppliers include leather (which is presently very expensive and in short supply due to global impact of mad cow and other diseases) and tanning & related chemicals. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing. Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ All that he had of wisdom and of wit. So the Recording Angel, when Hearst died, Erased all entries of his own and cried: "I'll judge you by your diary." Said Hearst: "Thank you; 'twill show you I am Saint the First" -- Straightway producing, jubilant and proud, That record from a pocket in his shroud. The Angel slowly turned the pages o'er, Each stupid line of which he knew before, Glooming and gleaming as by turns he hit On Shallow sentiment and stolen wit; Then gravely closed the book and gave it back. "My friend, you've wandered from your proper track: You'd never be content this side the tomb -- For big ideas Heaven has little room, And Hell's no latitude for making mirth," He said, and kicked the fellow back to earth. "The Mad Philosopher" |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Gene Wilder | Pompea! She was his wife, and she was unfaithful to him. So he got mad and he jumped on her, up and down, up and down, until he squashed her like a bug! Please don't jump on me! |
Halle Berry | I really do. You know, in the heat of it when you're angry and mad you can say a lot of things, but truly he's a good guy. Just not the right guy for me. |
Jodie Foster | Yeah, they would. They would also blame things on you. Like if the other actor was late or they were mad at them, they would just yell at the kids. |
Tim McGraw | Well, there's some people that don't and there's some people that pretend they like they don't too when they get mad if they don't see themselves if they don't see themselves in the paper. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I just want to say one more thing about this, and I want every one of you to think about this the next time you get mad at one of your colleagues on the other side of the aisle. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | And our greatest fear is that terrorists will find a shortcut to their mad ambitions when an outlaw regime supplies them with the technologies to kill on a massive scale. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "MAD" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.97% of the time. "MAD" is used about 3,147 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.97% | 3,146 | 2,989 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,147 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MAD" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mad | Last name | 100 | 81,693 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "MAD". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Beor | N/A | Biblical | Mad |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "MAD": a mad thing ♦ as mad as a hatter ♦ as mad as a march hare ♦ be hopping mad ♦ be in a mad rush ♦ be mad ♦ be mad about ♦ be mad about smb. ♦ be mad about smth. ♦ be mad at smb. ♦ be mad on smth. ♦ be mad with smb. ♦ be raging mad ♦ drive mad ♦ drive smb. mad ♦ driving mad ♦ enough to drive one mad ♦ get mad ♦ go mad ♦ going mad ♦ gone mad ♦ he is mad ♦ he was hopping mad ♦ he's as mad as a march hare ♦ he's mad about her ♦ hopping mad ♦ it makes me mad ♦ like mad ♦ mad about ♦ mad act ♦ mad after ♦ mad Anthony Wayne ♦ mad apple ♦ mad as a march hare ♦ mad at ♦ MAD bird ♦ mad cow disease ♦ mad doctor ♦ mad dog ♦ mad fellow ♦ mad house ♦ mad person ♦ Mad River ♦ mad rush ♦ mad with ♦ make hopping mad ♦ make mad ♦ prose run mad ♦ rain like mad ♦ raving mad ♦ run mad ♦ send smb. mad ♦ sex mad ♦ shout like mad ♦ stark mad ♦ stark raving mad ♦ stark staring mad ♦ To run mad ♦ To run mad after ♦ to run mad on ♦ work like mad. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "MAD": Mad-apple, mad-dictator, mad-dog skullcap, mad-dog weed, mad-eyed, Mad-headed, mad-house, mad-houses, mad-innocent, mad-keen, Mad-max, mad-panic, mad-scene, mad-woman. | |
Ending with "MAD": football-mad, golf-mad, half-mad, horse-mad, money-mad, power-mad, sex-mad, soccer-mad. | |
Containing "MAD": sex-mad-filthy, soccer-mad-country. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mad thumb | 2,968 | blast.com mad | 115 |
mad libs | 1,622 | mad thumbs.com | 102 |
mad cow disease | 1,568 | gone mad midget | 99 |
mad cow | 1,070 | lyrics mad world | 96 |
mad tv | 809 | cow joke mad | 96 |
mad | 780 | mad river | 93 |
mad magazine | 487 | mad scientist | 91 |
blast mad | 363 | caddy lyrics mad | 89 |
mad max | 360 | mad at the world | 88 |
billie dog mad | 313 | dog mad multimedia | 88 |
mad caddy | 249 | billy dog mad | 85 |
mad dog | 247 | its a mad mad mad mad world | 77 |
mad river canoe | 226 | libs mad printable | 76 |
mad about you | 201 | diary of a mad black woman | 74 |
mad messenger | 197 | gravity mad | 68 |
mad hatter | 174 | 4 mad max | 67 |
mad season | 169 | mad tv stuart | 64 |
mad catz | 150 | libs mad online | 62 |
mad onion | 127 | canada cow mad | 62 |
mad science | 117 | mad skillz | 60 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "MAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | mal (crazy, insane, nuts). (various references) | |
Albanian | i zemëruar (angry, biliary, crabbed, crabby, crusty, embittered, indignant, rampant, Wroth), i xhindosur (demoniacal, frantic, furious, possessed, wrathful), i tharbët (sour, sourish), i tërbuar (berserk, berserker, enraged, frantic, frenzied, furious, rabid, rampageous, rampant, riotous, wild), i pamend (brainless, dizzy, dumb, foolish, inane, injudicious, mindless, pinheaded, rattle-brained, rattle-headed), i marrosur pas diçkaje, i marrë (Batty, crack-brained, crazy, Daffy, delirious, demented, deranged, dippy, insane, madman, phrenetic, wildcat, zany), i inatosur (angry, annoyed, crusty, enraged, rambunctious, rampageous), i çmendur (anile, bedlamite, berserk, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, frantic, insane, loony, lunatic, madman, muddy, non compos, not all there, phrenetic, underwit, wild), çmendem (go crazy, go mad, madden, take leave of, take leave of one's senses). (various references) | |
Arabic | هائج (agitated, bad tempered, berserk, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, nervy, phrenic, rambunctious, rampant, rapturous, restive, restless, riotous, rough, rousing, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), أرعن (harebrained, light hearted, ranter), أخرق (awkward, bungling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, impolitic, left handed, lubberly, lump, maladroit, meaningless, nincompoop, oafish, ponderous, preposterous, senseless, shy, uncouth, ungainly, unhappy, wooden), أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany), جامح (headstrong, inordinate, madcap, raving, stubborn, unruly, wild, wilful), جن (demons, fairy, go crazy, go haywire, go mad, goblin, jinn, lose one's marbles, take leave of one's senses), خبل (amentia, befuddle, besot, craze, dementia, derange, distract, fluster, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, madden, madness, spare, stagger, stultify, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, tangle, unbalance), طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise), غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), أبله (asinine, ass, brainless, coot, cuckoo, daw, dense, dim witted, dullard, fatuous, feeble minded, gaga, gawky, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, lemon, patsy, screwed, sheepish, silly, sod, sodden, softy, soppy, stick in the mud, stupid, vacant, vacuous, wood-headed), نزق (cranky, cross, irritable, pernickety, pettiness, petulance, quick, rattle-brained, ratty, scatter-brain, snippy, testy, tetchy, touchiness), فقد عقله (go mad, lose one's head, take leave of one's senses), مجنون (barmy, bedlam, bonkers, crazy, daft, demented, dotty, fool, insane, madcap, maniac, maniacal, nut, off one's nut, out of one's head, out of one's mind, scatty, screwy, tomfool, up the pole), مخبول (crack-brained, crazed, demented, fool, idiotic, insane, loony, lunatic, mentally deranged, off his head, out of one's mind, potty, stupid, touched), مخبل (crack-brained, crazy, demented, idiotic, imbecile, insane, mentally deranged), معتوه (batty, cracked, crackpot, crazy, demented, dim witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, insane, loony, lunatic, madman, mentally deranged, off his head, possessed, screwy, sodden, soft-headed, stupid, up the pole, witless), مسعور (crazy, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hydrophobic, rabid, wild), متيم (enamored, enamoured, gone, infatuated, lovelorn, lovesick), مهوس (crazy, fiend), ممسوس (insane, maniac, possessed, touched), فارق الرأس, غير منطقي (illegitimate, illogical, inconsequent, inconsequential, irrational). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, obstreperous, orgiastic, phrenetic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, riotous, tearaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, vagrant, wanton, wild, zizzi), подлуден (enraged, maddened, raging), подлудявам (become insane, craze, dement, distract, drive crazy, drive mad, drive smb. nuts, go crazy, go mad, loco, madden, make wild), побеснял (infuriated, possessed, rabid, rampageous, rampant, run mad), полудял (crazy, frenzied, gone mad, haywire, loco, possessed), безумен (cockeyed, frantic, insane, lunatic, wild), бесен (demonic, rabid, raging, tearing, violent, wild), луд (bedlamite, bonkers, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, kinky, loco, lunatic, madman, maniac, off one's nut, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, possessed, potty, scatty, screwy, wild), дразня (annoy, bait, bosh, bugger about, bullyrag, burn up, dig, exacerbate, fetch, fray, fuss, gall, gravel, gripe, harass, irritate, jar, jive, madden, nag, niggle, nip, offend, peeve, pinprick, piss off, play up, provoke, rag, rasp, rib, ride, rile, rub, spite, tease, titillate, try, twit, vex, worry), налудничав (madcap, nutty, possessed, queer, whacked, wild), яростен (furious, irate, ireful, rabid, raging, rampant, tearing, thundering, towering, violent), необуздано весел, обезумял (berserk, distracted, frenzied, lunatic, wild, witless), вбесявам (aggravate, enrage, exasperate, incense, infuriate, madden, tease), влудявам (distract, madden), развихрен (gutsy), ядосан (angry, grumpy, pissed off, shirty, sick, snotty, teed off, warm, wrathful), умопобъркан (bedlamite, loony), умопомрачен (deranged), запален (afire, alight, burning, enthusiastic). (various references) | |
Chinese | 發狂 (crazy, madly), 發怒 , 猖 (wild), 狂 (conceited), 生氣 (angry, offended, to be enraged, to get angry, to take offense), 瘋 (insane, wild), 疯狂 (AMOK, Amuck, Craziness, Crazy, demented, frenzied, Frenzies, frenzy, insane, insanity, madness, maniacal). (various references) | |
Czech | šílený (berserk, crackpot, crazy, demented, frenzied, furious, harebrained, insane, lunatic, manic, terrible, terrific, tomfool). (various references) | |
Danish | sindssyg (crazy, insane, nuts). (various references) | |
Dutch | krankzinnig (crazy, insane, nuts), gek (absurd, crazy, insane, lunatic, nuts, odd, peculiar, ridiculous, strange), dolzinnig (crazy, insane, nuts), dol (crazy, drunk, foolish, furious, insane, intoxicated, nuts, rabid). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rabia (rabid), freneza (crazy, insane, nuts). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vitleysur (crazy, insane, nuts), frá sær sjálvum (crazy, insane, nuts). (various references) | |
Farsi | عصبانی کردن (Blood, Blowup, Crab, Enrage, Irritate, Madden), عصبانی (Huffy, Maniac, Nervous, Nervy, Pelting, Waxy), ازجادررفته (Berserk), شیفته (Amorous, Captive, Fond, Gaga), دیوانه کردن (Craze, Derange, Distract, Madden, Moon), دیوانه (Bedlam, Berserk, Crazy, Cuckoo, Demented, Fanatic, Fey, Gaga, Harebrained, Insane, Loco, Loony, Lunatic, Madbrained, Madcap, Manic, Natural, Nut, Nutty, Psychotic). (various references) | |
Finnish | hullu (crazy, insane, lunatic, nuts). (various references) | |
French | fou (madcap, madman, maniac, maniacal). (various references) | |
Frisian | sljochtsinnich (crazy, insane, nuts), dwylsinnich (crazy, insane, nuts), dûm (crazy, insane, nuts). (various references) | |
German | irre (confused, crack-brained, crazed, crazy, demented, freak, funky, insane, loony, lost, lunatic, madman, madwoman, maniac, mentally unbalanced, mind-bending, mind-blowing, morons, muddled, nuts, unbalanced, wild, wrong), wahnsinnig (brilliant, crazed, crazy, delirious, deliriously, demented, frantic, frenzied, incredibly, insane, lunatic, madly, maniac, maniacal, nuts, psychotically, raving, terrific), verrückt (Batty, crack-brained, crazily, crazy, daft, daisy, demented, dementedly, insane, insanely, kinky, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, madly, mentally unbalanced, mind-boggling, nuts, potty, psycho, raving, scatty, screwy, unbalanced, wackily, wacky, whimsical, wild, zany), toll (beautiful, brill, crazy, fancy, fantastic, furious, goody, great, groovy, insane, jazzy, madcap, magic, magical, nuts, pippin, rabid, raving, stunning, wild, yummy), böse (angry, bad, baddie, baleful, balefully, black, black-hearted, cross, crossly, dark, evil, evil person, ferocious, harm, malign, miserable, nastily, nasty, naughty, poor, sinister, sore, unholy, venomous, vicious, villain, villainous, wicked, wicked person). (various references) | |
Greek | κουζουλός, παραφρόντασ (madman), παλαβόσ (barmy, crackpot, crazy, daft, dare devil, flighty, nutty), λωλός, λυσσών (ragefull), τρελόσ (crack-brained, crazy, cuckoo, daft, demented, distraught, haywire, lunatical, madding, screw-ball), τρελός (crazy), τρελλόσ (berserk, insane, loco, loony, luny, maniac, nut, nuts, rompish), θυμωμένοσ (angry, disgruntled, huffish, huffy, irate, wrathful, wrathy), θυμωμένος (angry, het up, stroppy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משוגע (crazy, insane, lunatic, maniac, scatty), מטורף (crazy, loon, lunatic, nutty, possessed), שגעוני (crazy, insane, loony, manic), חולה רוח (insane, mental case, morbid, psychopath). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megõrjít (derange, drive mad, drive wild, madden), bolond (batty, berk, bonkers, coxcomb, cracked, crackpot, crazed, crazy, daft, dement, demented, dippy, droll, fool, foolish, goofy, hare-brained, loco, loony, lunatic, madman, moonstruck, nutter, nutty, off the beam, ratty, scatty, screwy, to be not such a fool as people make out, to be nuts, to be up the pole, up the pole), õrült (bedlamite, crack-pot, crazy, demented, frenzied, insane, loony, lunatic). (various references) | |
Icelandic | óður (rabid). (various references) | |
Indonesian | marah (angry, chafe, crabbed, crusty, indignant, irate, shirty, wrathful, wroth), gila (crazy, daft, demented, frenzy, insane, luny), edan (crazy, frantic, insane, wild), dol (crazy, damaged). (various references) | |
Italian | pazzo (Batty, bedlamite, crazy, distracted, fool, frenzied, insane, loony, lunatic, madly, madman, madmen, maniac, maniacal, moony, off one's rocker, potty, raving, screwy, wacky, wild), matto (crazy, dull, false, imitation, insane, loco, loony, Loopy, lunatic, madman, madwoman, Matt, moonstricken, moony, nut, nuts, nutty, screwy), rabbioso (angry, furious, rabid, raving, violent), arrabbiato (angry, furious, rusty). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 気違い (madness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きちがい (madness). (various references) | |
Korean | 미친 (Crazy, insane). (various references) | |
Malay | gila (crazy, fool, insane, nuts). (various references) | |
Manx | meecheeayllagh (absurd, half-witted, idiot, imbecile, nonsensical, silly, simple, unadvised), keoiagh, keoi (rabid), er rouyl (frantic, frenzied, rabid, to gad about), er keagh (raging), baanrit (demented, disordered, distracted, disturbed, maniac). (various references) | |
Norwegian | rasende (furious, madden), gal (odd, peculiar, strange). (various references) | |
Papiamen | loko (crazy, insane, nuts). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | admay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | louco (brain sick, bughouse, crack-brained, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, distraught, far gone, fey, fool, foolish, frenetic, insane, loco, lunatic, madman, maniac, maniacal, nuts, phrenetic, raving, wacky). (various references) | |
Romanian | nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, distracted, distraught, extravagant, fool, foolish, frantic, frenzied, infatuated, insane, lunatic, mad about, madcap, madman, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, raving, reckless, unruly, wild), înnebunit (mad about, wild), întãrâtat la culme, absurd (absurd, absurdity, absurdly, Dotty, fabulous, foolish, impossible, inept, irrational, ludicrous, mindless, nonsensical, piffling, preposterous, recondite, ridiculous, silly, stupid, temerarious, unreasonable), cumplit (atrocious, cruel, dreadful, eerie, fell, ferocious, fierce, grievous, horrendous, monstrous, outrageous, severe, terrible, utter, uttermost), de nebun, dement (crazy, demented, insane, madman, raving), înfuria (anger, diabolize, enrage, exasperate, get smb.'s dander up, huff, infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil, provoke, rouse to fury), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), turbat (awful, enraged, frenzied, furious, furiously, rabid, savage, tremendously), nebunesc (crazy, desperate, foolish, insensate, lunatic, madman's, nonsensical, reckless, wild), necugetat (foolish, ill-advised, ill-advisedly, inadvertent, precipitate, rashly, reckless, thoughtless, thoughtlessly), nelogic (illegitimate, illogical, illogically), nesãbuit (foolish, hare-brained, harum scarum, hell-bent, insensate, rashly, reckless, recklessly, wild), scoate din sãrite (drive smb. mad, get a rise out of smb., get smb.'s back up, peeve, put smb.'s back up, rile, set smb.'s back up, take a rise out of smb.), smintit (Batty, cracked, crazy, moon-struck, off one's dot, scatty, screw-ball), furios (desperate, enraged, fiery, frantic, furious, high, hot-headed, howling, in anger, irate, ireful, like fury, passionate, raging, rampageous, robust, scowling, storming, wanton, wild, wrathful). (various references) | |
Russian | безумный (crazy, demented, insane, nuts, off one's head). (various references) | |
Scottish | creachan (pudding mad with a calf's entrails). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mahnit (frantic, furious, insane), zaluđen (infatuated, mad about, spoony), umobolan (lunatic), lud (berserk, bonkers, buggy, crazy, daft, demented, distraught, head: off his head, insane, loco, lunatic, nut, nut: off one's nut, nuts), ljut (angry, bitter, cross, grim, hot, huffish, peppery, pissed, racy, severe), dovesti do ludila (madden), besan (amok, amuck, furious, sleepless, wild). (various references) | |
Spanish | enojado (angry, cross, displeased, hipped, huffy, shirty, snotty, vexed), demente (crazy, demented, frenzied, insane, lunatic, mad person, maniacal, mental bankrupt), chiflado (barmy, cracked, crackpot, crazy, daft, freak, loon, loony, Loopy, madly, nut, nutter, off his head, off one's nut, screwy, touched, trolley, wacky). (various references) | |
Sranan | law (crazy, insane, nuts). (various references) | |
Swedish | vansinnig (crazy, demented, insane, lunatic, moonstruck, nuts), tokig (barmy, Batty, bonkers, cock eyed, cockeyed, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, crazy, cuckoo, Daffy, daft, demented, Dotty, fruity, gaga, insane, loony, madcap, moony, nuts, ridiculous, touched, wrong), galen (absurd, bedlamite, crazy, distracted, distraught, insane, loco, loony, madcap, nuts, passionately fond, rabid, up the creek, up the pole, wild, wrong). (various references) | |
Tagalog | balíw (crazy, insane, nuts). (various references) | |
Thai | โกรธจัด (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references) | |
Turkish | sinirli (apoplectic, apoplectical, bristly, choleric, discomposedly, edgy, high strung, hot-blooded, hot-headed, huffish, huffy, ill-conditioned, in a pet, irate, ireful, irritable, jumpy, liverish, nervous, nervy, on edge, out of humor, out of humour, peeved, pissed off, ratty, shirty, short tempered, sinewed, sinewy, spunky, testy, uptight, waxy, wild, wrought up), kuduz (hydrophobia, lyssa, lyssa-, rabid, rabies), kudurmuş (rabid, raving), kızgın (angry, angry with, annoyed, ardent, baking, black, boiling, cross, dyspeptic, fervent, fierce, fiery, flaming, frowning, furious, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, huffy, in a glow, in a pet, in a tiff, incensed, indignant, indignantly, inflamed, irate, ireful, pissed off, red-hot, snappish, sore, vexed, wild, wroth), deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, delirious, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad about, madman, madwoman, meshuggah, not all there, nutcase, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, phrenetic, possessed, potty, touched), azgın (desperate, excessive, fierce, furious, goatish, rampageous, rampant, Randy, skittish, wild), çılgın (berserk, bonkers, crackpot, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, demon, demoniac, desperado, distracted, foolhardy, frenetic, frenzied, insane, kook, kooky, lunatic, maniacal, moonstruck, nut, phrenetic, possessed, raving, rip roaring, ripsnorter, scatty, wild). (various references) | |
Turkmen | telbe (crazy), guduz (rabid). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схиблений (crazed, crazy, crazy about, maniac, maniacal, nuts), скажений (rabid, wood), шалений (amok, amuck, boisterous, dithyrambic, ecstatic, fierce, frantic, frenzied, lunatic, outrageous, pelting, stormy, unruly, vehement, wild), божевільний (addle-brained, addle-pated, batchy, bedlam, brainsick, crack-brained, crackpot, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, frenetic, insane, loony, lunatic, madman, moonstruck, non compos, nuts, nutty, possessed, rabid, scatty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nổi giận (deep, irate, ireful), ham mê tức giận, giận dữ (angrily, furious, heatedly, irate, ireful, raging), for, cuồng (maniacal, tearing), after (long), điên (bedlamite, brain-sick, crazily, demented, insane, maniacal, screw-ball). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwyllt (rapid, savage, wild), gwallgof (insane), gorffwyllog (insane), gorffwyll (frenzied), cynddeiriog (rabid), amwyll (foolish, madman, madness). (various references) | |
Yucatec | chokow pol (crazy, insane, nuts). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | demens. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 18 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sicut noxius est qui mittit lanceas et sagittas et mortem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As gilti he is, that sendith speres and arwes in to deth; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | As a mad man who casteth fire-brands, arrows, and death, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Maingon sa usa ka nabuang tawo nga nagasalibay sa mga agipo, Mga udyong, ug kamatayon, |
| Croatian | Kao bjesomuènik koji baca zublje, strelice i sije smrt, |
| Danish | Som en vanvittig Mand, der udslynger Gløder, Pile og Død, |
| Dutch | Gelijk een, die zich veinst te razen, die vuursprankelen, pijlen en dodelijke dingen werpt; |
| Finnish | Kuin mieletön, joka ammuskelee tulisia surmannuolia, |
| French | Comme un furieux qui lance des flammes, Des flèches et la mort, |
| German | Wie ein Unsinniger mit Geschoß und Pfeilen schießt und tötet, |
| Hungarian | Mint a balga, a ki tüzet, nyilakat és halálos szerszámokat lövöldöz, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang yang menipu, lalu berkata, "Aku hanya bergurau saja," sama dengan orang gila yang bermain dengan senjata berbahaya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Seperti orang yang pura-pura main gila, tetapi dilontarkannya api dan anak panah dan segala perkakas kematian berkeliling, |
| Italian | Come un pazzo che scaglia tizzoni e frecce di morte, |
| Maori | ¶ Rite tonu ki te haurangi e makamaka ana i nga mea mura, i nga pere, i te mate, |
| Norwegian | Lik en gal mann som kaster ut brandpiler og skyter og dreper, |
| Portuguese | Como o louco que atira tições, flechas, e morte, |
| Rumanian | Ca nebunul care aruncq sqgeyi aprise wi ucigqtoare, |
| Russian | лБЛ РТЙФЧПТСАЭЙКУС РПНЕЫБООЩН ВТПУБЕФ ПЗПОШ, УФТЕМЩ Й УНЕТФШ, |
| Spanish | Como el que enloquece y arroja dardos y flechas de muerte, |
| Swedish | Lik en rasande, som slungar ut brandpilar och skjuter och dödar, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MAD": madam, madame, madames, madams, madcap, madcaps, madded, madden, maddened, maddening, maddeningly, maddens, madder, madders, maddest, madding, maddish, made, madeira, madeiras, madeleine, madeleines, mademoiselle, mademoiselles, madhouse, madhouses, madly, madman, madmen, madness, madnesses, madonna, madonnas, madras, madrases, madre, madrepore, madrepores, madreporian, madreporians, madreporic, madreporite, madreporites, madres, madrigal, madrigalian, madrigalist, madrigalists, madrigals, madrilene, madrilenes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "MAD": hebdomad, nomad, seminomad. (additional references) | |
Words containing "MAD": amadavat, amadavats, amadou, amadous, animadversion, animadversions, animadvert, animadverted, animadverting, animadverts, armada, armadas, armadillo, armadillos, bemadam, bemadamed, bemadaming, bemadams, bemadden, bemaddened, bemaddening, bemaddens, chamade, chamades, comade, dolmades, gammadia, gammadion, hamada, hamadas, hamadryad, hamadryades, hamadryads, hammada, hammadas, handmade, hebdomadal, hebdomadally, hebdomads, homemade, jemadar, jemadars, manmade, mismade, nomadic, nomadism, nomadisms, nomads, pomade, pomaded, pomades. (additional references) | |
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"MAD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amad, Amadu, amd, Amdh, emad, Emdad, imad, Imadi, Imda, m'a, Maada, mab, macd, mada, Madc, madi, Madl, Madm, mado, madog, madr, mads, mady, madzi, maf, Magd, Magdy, mah, mahd, maj, Majd, mald, mand, maq, mard, mau, mav, mbd, mcd, mda, mdap, mdb, mdd, mdm, mdt, Medbh, medd, medy, Mga, miad, Midh, mido, miud, miv, mixd, Mlada, mld, mnd, moad, Mohd, Mqa, Mrad, mrd, msd, mudd, mudo, mudr, mvd, mxd, myd, Nadv, Najd, Naqd, Nsad, omad, omda, Qma, smad, xmax. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MAD" (pronounced ma"d) |
| 2 | -a" d | ad, add, bad, Brad, cad, Chad, clad, dad, lad, fad, forbad, gad, glad, grad, had, pad, plaid, rad, sad, Scad, shad, tad. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dam. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-m" | |
-1 letter: ad, am, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-m" | |
+1 letter: amid, dame, damn, damp, dams, dram, duma, made, mads, maid, maud, mead. | |
+2 letters: adeem, adman, admen, admit, admix, aimed, almud, amend, amide, amido, amids, armed, daman, damar, dames, damns, damps, datum, derma, dogma, dolma, domal, douma, drama, drams, dream, dumas, dumka, dunam, edema, famed, gamed, lamed, maced, madam, madly, madre, maids, maned, mated, mauds, maund, mawed, mayed, mazed, meads, medal, media, menad, modal, monad, mudra, named, nomad, tamed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Derived from 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Bible Trace 23. Abbreviations 24. Acronyms | 25. Derivations 26. Rhymes 27. Anagrams 28. Bibliography |
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