Crossword clues for maddest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mad \Mad\, a. [Compar. Madder; superl. Maddest.] [AS. gem?d, gem[=a]d, mad; akin to OS. gem?d foolish, OHG. gameit, Icel. mei?a to hurt, Goth. gam['a]ids weak, broken. ?.]
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Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.
I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad.
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Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.
It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
--Jer. 1. 88.And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
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Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. ``Mad demeanor.''
--Milton.Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.
--Franklin.The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled.
--Jowett (Thucyd.). Extravagant; immoderate. ``Be mad and merry.''
--Shak. ``Fetching mad bounds.''
--Shak.Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.
Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
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Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle. Like mad, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to run like mad. --L'Estrange. To run mad.
To become wild with excitement.
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To run wildly about under the influence of hydrophobia; to become affected with hydrophobia.
To run mad after, to pursue under the influence of infatuation or immoderate desire. ``The world is running mad after farce.''
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativemad)
WordNet
adj. roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: huffy, sore]
affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: delirious, excited, frantic, unrestrained]
very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" [syn: harebrained, insane]
See mad
Usage examples of "maddest".
Topper had thought he had seen the dog at his maddest, but never had he seen him wear such a completely gone expression as the one now torturing his face.
When I came to consider in this new light the leaving of the false teeth, an explanation of what had seemed the maddest part of the affair broke upon me at once.
Flux, even the maddest of Fluxlords had been faced with the realization that his or her power came not from divine providence but from the remnants of the technology of an ancient civilization whose machines still worked and that their power could be threatened by other technology being rediscovered all the time in ancient files and records.
It is the maddest destiny that ever I heard, but if you wish it, then so let it be.
Perhaps also because I would warn you not to throw away lives so gallant by attempting to win through the guarded gates of Damascus upon the maddest of all quests.
He looked as though he would be quite the maddest of the lot, but he talked in a soft, almost whispering voice, lucidly and, for the most part, of familiar things.
And then he see how it was, and he was the maddest man--he set the frog down and took out after that feeler, but he never ketched him.
She is steadfast as a star, And yet the maddest maiden: She can wage a gallant war, And give the peace of Eden.