raving mad

1. 1.

   talking or behaving irrationally

   “a raving lunatic”

   Synonymswild

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Questions about raving mad

What does raving mad mean?

raving mad means "talking or behaving irrationally".

What is another word for raving mad?

Close synonyms include wild. 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 raving mad a common word?

raving mad 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.