mad /mæd/
1. roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"
2. affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
synset: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged
3. marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"
synset: delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained
4. very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"
synset: harebrained, insane, mad
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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