transcription, транскрипция: [ mæd ]
( madder, maddest)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
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.
= insane
ADJ
• mad‧ness
He was driven to the brink of madness.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
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?
= crazy
ADJ [ disapproval ]
• mad‧ness
It is political madness.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If you say that someone is mad , you mean that they are very angry. ( INFORMAL )
You’re just mad at me because I don’t want to go...
ADJ : usu v-link ADJ , oft ADJ at/about n
4.
If you are mad about or mad on something or someone, you like them very much indeed. ( INFORMAL )
She’s not as mad about sport as I am...
He’s mad about you...
He’s mad on trains.
ADJ : v-link ADJ about/on n
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Mad is also a combining form.
...his football-mad son...
He’s not power-mad.
COMB in ADJ
5.
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.
ADJ
• mad‧ly
Down in the streets people were waving madly.
ADV : ADV with v
6.
If you say that someone or something drives you mad , you mean that you find them extremely annoying. ( INFORMAL )
There are certain things he does that drive me mad...
This itching is driving me mad.
PHRASE : V inflects
7.
If you do something like mad , you do it very energetically or enthusiastically. ( INFORMAL )
He was weight training like mad.
PHRASE : PHR after v
8.
mad keen: see keen
see also madly