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say it: RAB-id
rabid is an adjective meaning "of or infected by rabies". It is pronounced /ˈɹæbɪd/ — RAB-id. It carries 2 recorded senses.
of or infected by rabies
marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea
“rabid isolationist”
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 rabid 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.