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Added 8 October 2026

mad

/ˈmæd/ symbol

In Latin: delirus, vēcors, īnsānus Wiktionary

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ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Madurese.

adjective

Insane; crazy; mentally deranged.
You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?
Angry; annoyed.
Are you mad at me?
Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.

adverb

Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
He was driving mad slow.

verb

To be or become mad. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
To madden, to anger, to frustrate.

Origin

From Middle English mad, madde, madd, medd, from Old English ġemǣd, ġemǣded (“enraged”), past participle of ġemǣdan, *mǣdan (“to make insane or foolish”), from Proto-Germanic *maidijaną (“to change; damage; cripple; injure; make mad”), from Proto-Germanic *maidaz ("weak; crippled"; compare Old English gemād (“silly, mad”), Old High German gimeit (“foolish, crazy”), literary German gemeit (“mad, insane”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (gamaiþs, “crippled”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- ("to change"; compare Old Irish máel (“bald, dull”), Old Lithuanian ap-maitinti (“to wound”), Sanskrit मेथति (méthati, “he hurts, comes to blows”)).

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