adjective
- Roused to anger.
- usage: "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"
- Affected with madness or insanity.
- usage: "a man who had gone mad"
- Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion.
- usage: "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"
- synonyms: delirious, excited, frantic, unrestrained
- Very foolish.
- usage: "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"
- synonyms: harebrained, insane
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