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# madly

«madly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a wild, uncontrolled or frantic way: running madly about** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a wild, uncontrolled or frantic way: running madly about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#m1)

2) Very much; extremely: madly in love, madly busy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#m2)

3) (old-fashioned) In a crazy or foolish way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories «madly» shows rushed or wild action, or strong feelings. In everyday talk it makes words stronger: «madly in love», «madly jealous». Phrases: madly in love, rush about madly, wave madly.

### examples

- The puppy ran madly around the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#x1)
- We waved madly at the plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#x2)
- They are madly in love. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#x3)
- Everyone was rushing about madly before the show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#x4)
- The kids cheered madly when their team scored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#x5)
- I scribbled madly to finish the test in time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#x6)
- The bell rang madly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#x7)
- She was madly busy all week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#x8)
- ‘I see a swarm of brown horses racing madly after us,’ he answered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madly/#x9)

### note

Adverb from «mad». In UK English «mad» can mean crazy or very keen; in US English «mad» often means angry, but «madly» rarely means angrily. Informal-to-neutral word.

### Trees and pragmatics

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