maddened

1. 1.

   marked by extreme anger

   “the enraged bull attached”

   “furious about the accident”

   “a furious scowl”

   “infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy”

   “could not control the maddened crowd”

   Synonymsangeredenragedfuriousinfuriated

   Similarangry

Other forms of maddened

comparative

maddenedder·

superlative

maddeneddest·

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.

Questions about maddened

What does maddened mean?

maddened means "marked by extreme anger".

How many syllables are in maddened?

maddened has 2 syllables: mad-dened. The stress falls on "mad".

What is another word for maddened?

Close synonyms include angered, enraged, furious, infuriated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is maddened a common word?

maddened is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.