adj.
1 ( esp. BrE ) not sane ⇨ See also ↑ crazy
VERBS
▪ be , look , seem
▪ go
▪
He went ~ and spent the rest of his life locked up in a mental hospital.
▪
The world had gone completely ~.
▪ drive sb
▪
His experiences in the First World War drove him ~.
▪
The children are driving me ~!
▪ consider sb , think sb
▪
Her colleagues thought her quite ~.
▪ pronounce sb
ADVERB
▪ absolutely , completely , quite , totally , utterly
▪ barking ( BrE ), raving , stark raving ( all informal )
▪
What a barking ~ idea!
▪
You must be stark raving ~ to risk your money like that!
▪ almost
▪ a little , slightly , etc.
▪ half
PREPOSITION
▪ with
▪
I went ~ with joy and danced a little jig.
2 ( informal , esp. AmE ) angry
VERBS
▪ be , feel , look
▪ get
▪
I get so ~ when people don't take me seriously.
▪ make sb
▪
It makes me really ~ when people waste food.
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪ hopping
▪ absolutely
PREPOSITION
▪ at , with
▪
Please don't be ~ with me!
Mad is used with these nouns: ↑ dash , ↑ dog , ↑ eye , ↑ frenzy , ↑ genius , ↑ idea , ↑ panic , ↑ professor , ↑ rush , ↑ scientist , ↑ scramble , ↑ whirl , ↑ world