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1. Roused to anger
   "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend";
   - huffy, sore
    
2. Affected with madness or insanity
   "a man who had gone mad";
   - brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, sick, unbalanced, unhinged
    
3. Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
   "a mad whirl of pleasure";
   - delirious, excited, frantic, unrestrained
    
4. Very foolish
   "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains";
   - harebrained, insane

Derived forms: madder, maddest

See also: angry, cross, daft [Brit, informal], dumb, foolish, imbecile, imbecilic, insane, stupid, wild

Encyclopedia: Mad, Mad 83