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say it: mad
mad is an adjective meaning "roused to anger". It carries 4 recorded senses.
marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
“a crowd of delirious baseball fans”
“something frantic in their gaiety”
“a mad whirl of pleasure”
very foolish
“harebrained ideas”
“took insane risks behind the wheel”
“a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mad come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.