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What is the adjective for mad?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs madden and mad which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

mad
  1. Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
  2. (chiefly US; UK dated + regional) Angry, annoyed.
  3. Wildly confused or excited.
  4. Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
  5. (colloquial, usually with for or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
  6. (of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
  7. (slang, chiefly Northeastern US) Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.
  8. (of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. demented, deranged, insane, certifiable, crazed, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged, crazy, mental, psychotic, distracted, frantic, frenzied, non compos mentis, nutty, raving, unstable, batty, cuckoo, delirious, distraught, disturbed, hysterical, loony, manic, mentally ill, nuts, bats, bonkers, cracked, not together, psychopathic, sectionable, gaga, loco, screwy, stark mad, bananas, barmy, crackers, dotty, loopy, sick in the head, dippy, meshuga, of unsound mind, schizoid, wacko, away with the fairies … more
  10. Examples:
      11. “In his mad and insane mind, he believed he was a deity put on this earth to rule over mankind.”
      “I got kind of mad at Tracy because she really wasn't taking my enraged rants very seriously.”
      “From an early age, he was mad about football and wanted to play it professionally.”
maddening
  1. Causing frustration or anger.
  2. Leading to insanity.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. aggravating, annoying, bothersome, vexatious, vexing, exasperating, galling, irritating, infuriating, irksome, provoking, rankling, troublesome, unsettling, troubling, trying, upsetting, abrasive, enraging, pesky, riling, carking, chafing, disturbing, frustrating, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguy, pesty, plaguey, rebarbative, tiresome, displeasing, disagreeable, infernal, grating, unpleasant, confounded, niggling, distressing, harassing, wearisome, cussed, nagging, tedious, inconvenient … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Eric was maddening enough in normal circumstances, but to have him also be right several times in a row was really too much.”
madling
  1. (dialect, chiefly archaic) Mad; insane; crazy.
madsome
  1. Characterised or marked by madness
madding
  1. (archaic): Affected with madness; raging; furious.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. agitated, angry, berserk, corybantic, crazy, delirious, deranged, distraught, excited, fraught, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hyper, hysterical, insane, mad, overwrought, rabid, raging, raving, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, violent, weird, wild, wired, zonkers, at wits' end, beside oneself, flipped out, freaked out, hot and bothered, hot under the collar, in a stew, in a tizzy, keyed up, out of control, panic-stricken, shook up, spazzed out, weirded out, wigged out, worked up … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The madding crowd trampled over one another in a desperate attempt to catch a glimpse of the famous celebrity.”
maddish
  1. Somewhat mad
maddest
  1. superlative form of mad: most mad
  2. Synonyms:
      3. craziest, nuttiest, battiest, looniest, screwiest, barmiest, dottiest, loopiest, dippiest, buggiest, crankiest, daffiest, daftest, fruitiest, kookiest, wackiest, whackiest, balmiest, nutsiest, scattiest, squirrelliest, most demented, most deranged, most insane, most certifiable, most crazed, most lunatic, most unbalanced, most unhinged, most mental, most psychotic, most distracted, most frantic, most frenzied, most raving, most unstable, most cuckoo, most delirious, most distraught, most disturbed, most hysterical, most manic, most mentally ill, most nuts, most bats, most cracked, most psychopathic, most gaga, most loco, most bananas … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “They were twisted, grotesque things, as if conceived by the maddest of artist, or most unremorseful of psychopaths.”
      “Bags I the one with the maddest of the mad hair, and the most dreadful of the Granny-knitted jumpers...and the broadest West Country accent.”
      “Dear old maddest of created 'Caesars,' I feel as if I were whacking at him yet!”
maddened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of madden
  2. Synonyms:
      3. excited, provoked, incited, riled, stirred up, fomented, impassioned, inflamed, rallied, roiled, roused, stirred, triggered, aggravated, agitated, animated, electrified, fired up, goaded, inspired, instigated, aroused, enthused, galvanized, incensed, irked, primed, ruffled, stimulated, whipped up, baited, charged, egged on, elicited, encouraged, enlivened, grilled, kindled, piqued, pumped up, revved up, set off, vexed, vext, vivified, worked up, wound up, activated, angered, awakened … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “After waiting in the long line for hours, Mary felt maddened by the slow and disorganized service at the bank.”
madded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of mad
  2. Synonyms:
      3. angered, enraged, incensed, infuriated, outraged, inflamed, ired, maddened, rankled, riled, roiled, enflamed, steamed up, ticked off … more
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