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Definition: Madman |
MadmanNoun1. An insane person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "madman" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Madman Macedonia's madman. Alexander the Great. (B.C. 356, 336-323.) The brilliant madman or Madman of the North. Charles XII. of Sweden. (1682, 1697-1718.) "Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede [Charles XII.]." Pope: Essay on Man, iv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: MadmanSynonyms: lunatic (n), maniac (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fool | Greenhorn; (dupe); dunce; (ignoramus); lubber; (bungler); madman. |
Madman | Noun: madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, candidate for Bedlam, raver, madcap, crazy; energumen; automaniac, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac; hypochondriac; (low spirits); crank, Tom o'Bedlam. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Madman |
| English words defined with "madman": Bethlemite ♦ cut up ♦ disfigure ♦ Madmen, mangle, mutilate ♦ torch. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "madman": Brilliant Madman ♦ Cader Idris, Cynics ♦ Lapet ♦ Macedonian Madman ♦ Quixote of the North ♦ WIT. (references) |
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Screenplays | You're working for a madman, you know. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) He was also a lunatic and a genocidal madman. I hate this painting. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) If by that remark you mean that I sometimes help people in trouble, yes I do. But if you mean that I'm anything like this madman out there, then you're wrong again! (The Equalizer; writing credit: Grenville Casey; Loraine Despres) I would be very careful about this if I were you. What if you fall into the hands of some madman with plans to manipulate your brain? (Peggy Sue Got Married; writing credit: Jerry Leichtling; Arlene Sarner) They tell me you're a madman. (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky) | |
Lyrics | Listen to the madman! ("The Prophet's Song"; performing artist: Queen) Available on the album Madman Across The Water ("Tiny Dancer"; performing artist: Elton John) Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat ("Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen)"; performing artist: MANFRED MANN) Call the police, there's a madman around ("WEST END GIRLS"; performing artist: Pet Shop Boys) Like a madman laughing at the rain ("Runaway Train"; performing artist: Soul Asylum) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Two Girls for a Madman (1968) Diary of a Madman (1963) Hitler's Madman (1943) The Madman (1911) Madman of the People (1994) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
E. M. Cioran | Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. |
Euripides | Only a coward or a madman would give good for evil. |
Juan Ruiz de Alarcon | The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity. |
Miguel De Cervantes | Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He followed her with his eyes till she disappeared, then he began to walk in the Luxembourg like a madman. |
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| "Madman" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.34% of the time. "Madman" is used about 151 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.34% | 150 | 25,701 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.66% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 151 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "madman": carry on like a madman. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "madman": wake-up-a-poet-or-a-madman. | |
| 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 |
all the madman | 77 |
professor and the madman | 37 |
diary of a madman | 33 |
cafe madman | 17 |
i madman | 9 |
hulk madman | 6 |
madman record | 6 |
madman across the water | 6 |
madman comic | 4 |
madman lure | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "madman"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i marrë (Batty, crack-brained, crazy, Daffy, delirious, demented, deranged, dippy, insane, mad, phrenetic, wildcat, zany), i çmendur (anile, bedlamite, berserk, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, frantic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, muddy, non compos, not all there, phrenetic, underwit, wild). (various references) | |
Arabic | معتوه (batty, cracked, crackpot, crazy, demented, dim witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, mentally deranged, off his head, possessed, screwy, sodden, soft-headed, stupid, up the pole, witless), المخبول (bedlamite), المجنون. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | луд човек (loon), луд (bedlamite, bonkers, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, kinky, loco, lunatic, mad, maniac, off one's nut, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, possessed, potty, scatty, screwy, wild). (various references) | |
Chinese | 狂人 . (various references) | |
Czech | šílenec. (various references) | |
Farsi | مرددیوانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | mielipuoli (demented, insane, lunatic). (various references) | |
French | malade (madwoman), insensé (mad, madcap), furieux (mad), fou (mad, madcap, maniac, maniacal), aliéné (mad). (various references) | |
German | verrückte (crackpot, crazily, daftly, furioso, kook, loony, lunatic, madwoman, maniac, oddball), irre (confused, crack-brained, crazed, crazy, demented, freak, funky, insane, loony, lost, lunatic, mad, madwoman, maniac, mentally unbalanced, mind-bending, mind-blowing, morons, muddled, nuts, unbalanced, wild, wrong). (various references) | |
Greek | παραφρόντασ (mad). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חסר "ע" (ament, fool, senseless, silly, witless). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elmebeteg (insane, lunatic, psychotic, sicko, to be nuts), bolond (batty, berk, bonkers, coxcomb, cracked, crackpot, crazed, crazy, daft, dement, demented, dippy, droll, fool, foolish, goofy, hare-brained, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, 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). (various references) | |
Italian | pazzo (Batty, bedlamite, crazy, distracted, fool, frenzied, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, madmen, maniac, maniacal, moony, off one's rocker, potty, raving, screwy, wacky, wild). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 狂人 (lunatic). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょうじ" (assassin's dagger, lunatic, stiff, strong, tenacious, tough). (various references) | |
Korean | 미치광이 (Madmen, maniac). (various references) | |
Manx | fer keoie, fer baanrit (maniac, psychopath, zealot), fer ass e cheeayll, buill vollaght. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | admanmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maluco (crazy, daft, kopec, loco, lunatic asylum, mad), louco (as far as, brain sick, bughouse, crack-brained, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, distress, fey, fool, foolish, frenetic, insane, locomotion, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, nuts, nutshell, phrenetic, raving, wacky), furiosamente (amokly, amuckly, violently), demente (crazed, demented, deranged, doited, insane, lubber-head, mad), alienado (alienated, bedlamite, insane, maniacal, manic, non-acceptance). (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, mad about, madcap, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, raving, reckless, unruly, wild), desperat (abject, desperado, desperate, desperately, forlorn, gone, hopeless, pathetic, pathetically, temerarious), dement (crazy, demented, insane, mad, raving), alienat (alienated, insane, lunatic). (various references) | |
Russian | сумасшедший (batty, bedlamite, bonkers, brain-sick, crackpot, crazed, crazy, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, loco, loony, mad, off one's nuts, off-the wall, out of one's mind, psycho, raving maniac, scatty, up the pole, wacko), безумец (madness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ludak (berserk, berserker, crackpot, lunatic, nut), ludački (berserker, crazy, foolish). (various references) | |
Spanish | loco (amok, amuck, barmy, bonkers, bugs, crack-brained, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, distraught, dunce, fogey, half wit, haywire, hectic, idiot, jenny ass, juggins, lemon, loco, loony, loose, mad, nutty, out of one's mind, round the bend, up the pole, wall eyed, wet, whacky, wild, zany). (various references) | |
Swedish | vettvilling (desperado), galning (loon, loony, lunatic, madwoman, maniac, screwball, tomfool), dåre (fool, loony, lunatic, madwoman, maniac). (various references) | |
Turkish | deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, delirious, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, 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). (various references) | |
Ukranian | божевільний (addle-brained, addle-pated, batchy, bedlam, brainsick, crack-brained, crackpot, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, frenetic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, moonstruck, non compos, nuts, nutty, possessed, rabid, scatty), безумець (phrenetic). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người mất trí (lunatic, lunatical), người điên (bedlamite, lunatic, lunatical, maniac, mental). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwallgofddyn, amwyll (foolish, mad, madness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Madman" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: badman, Cadnam, Hadman, Jamdani, Maamen, madain, Madamba, Ma'dan, madang, Maddan, Madm, madmans, madtan, maedan, Maiman, Malman, maman, Mamand, Mamani, Mamdou, mamman, Manman, Marmand, Mayman, meadean, Meadsman, Medan, Midan, Mitzman, Mosman, mudman, Musman, Musmanno, Niddmen, Nidmen, ommadawn, Qmacmac, sadman. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "madman" (pronounced ma"dma'n) |
| 4 | -d m a' n | Sandman, sideman. |
| 3 | -m a' n | anchorman, Assemblyman, Batman, bogeyman, businessman, caveman, counterman, doorman, fisherman, frogman, Glassman, guardsman, Hackman, handyman, helmsman, jazzman, journeyman, kinsman, lumberman, mailman, merman, middleman, milkman, Minuteman, newsman, newspaperman, nurseryman, oilman, patrolman, radioman, repairman, serviceman, snowman, strongman, Tinman, weatherman. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-m-n" | |
-1 letter: adman, daman, madam. | |
-2 letters: damn, mama, mana, nada. | |
-3 letters: ama, ana, and, dam, mad, man, nam. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, am, an, ma, mm, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-m-m-n" | |
+1 letter: manmade. | |
+2 letters: madwoman, mandamus. | |
+3 letters: gammadion, memoranda, monodrama, mridangam. | |
+4 letters: ammoniated, anagrammed, bemadaming, commandant, mandamused, mandamuses, mismanaged, monodramas, mridangams. | |
+5 letters: commandable, commandants, diagramming, disarmament, mandamusing, mandarinism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 64 6D 61 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.. -- .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100100 01101101 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a d m a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0064 006D 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476770796780 |
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