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# mad

«mad» in Mova's school dictionary: **Angry** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (mad, madder, maddest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal, especially USA) Angry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#m1)

2) (UK and elsewhere, informal) Very silly or foolish; crazy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#m2)

3) mad about/on: liking something very much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#m3)

4) (old or offensive) Mentally ill; avoid this use about real people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#m4)

5) (slang) Very, or very great: "mad skills". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk: "Mum was mad at me" (angry, mostly USA), "you're mad to swim in winter" (crazy, UK). Phrases: mad at, mad about, go mad, drive someone mad, like mad, mad as a hatter.

### examples

- Mum was mad at me for being late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#x1)
- You're mad to go swimming in this cold! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#x2)
- She's mad about horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#x3)
- The noise is driving me mad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#x4)
- We ran like mad to catch the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#x5)
- The crowd went mad when we scored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#x6)
- (slang) He's got mad skills on the skateboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#x7)
- "Den Brer Possum git mighty mad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/#x8)

### note

Comparison: madder, maddest (double d). "Mad" meaning angry is more American; in the UK people more often mean "crazy". Calling a real person "mad" for illness is unkind. "Like mad" means very fast or very hard.

### In the corpora

- ["Mad" in this book means crazy and silly; calling real people "mad" because they are ill is unkind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/15/)
- [Therefore I'm mad." Alice says "I call it purring, not growling."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/17/)
- [They jump about like mad things while explaining, then suddenly sit down sadly and quietly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/2/)
- [«Funny!» Then he starts digging in the snow like mad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/2/)
- [The Mole digs, mostly to humour his friend, who he thinks is going a bit mad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mad» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mad/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.