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Definition: MADDING |
MADDINGAdjective1. Affected with madness; raging; furious. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Mad |
Date "MADDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Seclusion Exclusion | Among them but not of them ; " and homeless near a thousand homes I stood "; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife; " makes a solitude and calls it peace "; magna civitas magna solitudo; " never less alone than when alone "; " O sacred solitude! divine retreat! ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MADDING |
| English words defined with "MADDING": Mad. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Location: Far From the Madding Crowd (1967) Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Far from the politics and the madding crowd, a lone fisherman enjoys a sunrise at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D. C. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "MADDING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MADDING" is used about 19 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) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MADDING" 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 |
| Madding | Last name | 400 | 20,722 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "MADDING": far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
far from madding crowd | 35 |
madding | 13 |
crowd far film from madding review | 3 |
the madding crowd | 3 |
allen madding | 2 |
madding mamie | 2 |
crowd day madding nine | 2 |
thomas hardy far from the madding crowd | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MADDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | παράφοροσ (hot tempered, impetuous, passionate), τρελόσ (crack-brained, crazy, cuckoo, daft, demented, distraught, haywire, lunatical, mad, screw-ball). (various references) | |
Hungarian | távol a város zajától (far from the madding crowd), távol a tömegek zajától (far from the madding crowd). (various references) | |
Italian | farnetico (furiousnis, raging). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | addingmay.(various references) | |
Thai | บ้า ((as) mad as a hatter, cockeyed, gaga, gonzo, kooky, loco, loonie, loony, lunatic, madden, maddening, maddeningly, meshuga, meshugah, radge, sedate). (various references) | |
Turkish | tepesi atmış (furious, heated, in high dudgeon), köpürmüş, delirtici (maddening). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"MADDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amadigi, madang, Maddan, maddon, madin, mading, madog, maiding, manding, Meading, Medding, Meddyg, meding, modding, Muddin, muding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MADDING" (pronounced ma"ding) |
| 4 | -a" d i ng | adding, gadding, Gladding, padding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gilding, girding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: adding. | |
-2 letters: gaddi, gadid, gamin. | |
-3 letters: agin, amid, amin, damn, dang, ding, gadi, gain, magi, maid, main, mina, mind. | |
-4 letters: add, aid, aim, ain, ami, and, ani, dad, dag, dam, did, dig, dim, din, gad, gam, gan, gid, gin, mad, mag, man, mid, mig, nag, nam, nim. | |
-5 letters: ad, ag, ai, am, an, id, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-g-i-m-n" | |
+2 letters: demanding, diademing, maddening, misadding. | |
+3 letters: diamonding, goddamming, goddamning, ramrodding. | |
+4 letters: bemaddening, daydreaming, demandingly, gormandised, gormandized, maddeningly, redemanding, undemanding. | |
+5 letters: demagnetized, demodulating, gourmandized, misdiagnosed, nondemanding. | |
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