mad

mad is a 3-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A slattern. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A slattern.
2. noun. The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy.
3. p. p. of Made.
4. superlative. Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.
5. superlative. Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.
6. superlative. Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.
7. superlative. Extravagant; immoderate.
8. superlative. Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.
9. superlative. Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
10. superlative. Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
11. transitive verb. To make mad or furious; to madden.
12. intransitive verb. To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.
13. noun. An earthworm.
14. adjective. roused to anger- Mark Twain

    "stayed huffy a good while"

    "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"

    Synonyms: huffy, sore

15. adjective. affected with madness or insanity

    "a man who had gone mad"

    Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, sick, unbalanced, unhinged

16. adjective. marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion

    "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"

    "something frantic in their gaiety"

    Synonyms: delirious, excited, frantic, unrestrained

17. adjective. very foolish

    "harebrained ideas"

    "took insane risks behind the wheel"

    Synonyms: harebrained, insane

Synonyms

huffy, sore, brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, sick, unbalanced, unhinged, delirious, excited, frantic, unrestrained, harebrained, insane

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mad:

adm, amd, dam

Common word forms

mads, madly, madded, madder, maddest, madding, madness

Words from these letters

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