mad

动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
美 /ˈmæːd/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To be or become mad. intransitive,obsolete
    — The imperial Elizabetta gazed with surprise at the youthful and unpretending appearance of the little being that had set the world madding.
  2. To madden, to anger, to frustrate. Jamaica,US,colloquial
    — This musick mads me, let it sound no more.
形容词 adj.
  1. Insane; crazy, mentally deranged. UK
    — You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?
  2. Angry, annoyed. US,informal
    — Are you mad at me?
  3. Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval. informal
    — Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.
  4. Bizarre; incredible. Ireland,UK,informal
    — It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.
  5. Wildly confused or excited.
    — to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred
  6. Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
  7. Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for. colloquial,usually
    — Aren't you just mad for that red dress?
  8. Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
    — a mad dog
  9. Intensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many. New-York,slang
    — I gotta give you mad props for scoring us those tickets. Their lead guitarist has mad skills. There are always mad girls at those parties.
  10. Having impaired polarity.
副词 adv.
  1. Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably. Ireland,New-York,UK,dialectal,not-comparable
    — He was driving mad slow.

词形变化

madder comparative maddest superlative mads present,singular,third-person madding participle,present madded participle,past madded past

词汇关系

近义词
mighty kinda hella helluv

词源

词源 1
From Middle English mad, madde, madd, medd, from Old English ġemǣd, ġemǣded (“enraged”), past participle of ġemǣdan, *mǣdan (“to make insane or foolish”), from Proto-Germanic *maidijaną (“to change; damage; cripple; injure; make mad”), from Proto-Germanic *maidaz ("weak; crippled"; compare Old English gemād (“silly, mad”), Old High German gimeit (“foolish, crazy”), literary German gemeit (“mad, insane”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (gamaiþs, “crippled”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- ("to change"; compare Old Irish máel (“bald, dull”), Old Lithuanian ap-maitinti (“to wound”), Sanskrit मेथति (méthati, “he hurts, comes to blows”)).
词源 2
From Middle English madden, from the adjective; compare Old English ġemǣdan.
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