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Definitions for Madding

[1] acting madly or senselessly; insane; frenzied: a quiet place far from the madding crowd.
[2] making mad: a madding grief.
[3] mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
[4] enraged; greatly provoked or irritated; angry.
[5] (of animals) abnormally furious; ferocious: a mad bull. affected with rabies; rabid: a mad dog.
[6] extremely foolish or unwise; imprudent; irrational: a mad scheme to invade France.
[7] wildly excited or confused; frantic: mad haste.
[8] overcome by desire, eagerness, enthusiasm, etc.; excessively or uncontrollably fond; infatuated: He's mad about the opera.
[9] wildly lively and merry; enjoyably hilarious: to have a mad time at the Mardi Gras.
[10] (of wind, storms, etc.) furious in violence: A mad gale swept across the channel.
[11] an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell: The last time he had a mad on, it lasted for days.
[12] Archaic . to make mad.
[13] Archaic . to be, become, or act mad.
[14] acting or behaving as if mad the madding crowd
[15] making mad; maddening
[16] mutual assured destruction: a theory of nuclear deterrence whereby each side in a conflict has the capacity to destroy the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack
[17] mentally deranged; insane
[18] senseless; foolish a mad idea
[19] (often foll by at) informal angry; resentful
[20] (foll by about, on, or over; often postpositive ) wildly enthusiastic (about) or fond (of) mad about football ; football-mad
[21] extremely excited or confused; frantic a mad rush
[22] temporarily overpowered by violent reactions, emotions, etc mad with grief
[23] (of animals) unusually ferocious a mad buffalo afflicted with rabies
[24] like mad informal with great energy, enthusiasm, or haste; wildly
[25] mad as a hatter crazily eccentric
[26] archaic to make or become mad; act or cause to act as if mad

Words related to Madding

agitated, angry, berserk, crazy, delirious, deranged, distraught, excited, fraught, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hysterical, insane, mad, overwrought, panic-stricken, rabid, raging

Words nearby Madding

maddening, madder, madder family, madder lake, maddest, madding, maddish, maddux, made, made dish, made for each other

Origin of Madding

before 900; Middle English mad (adj.), madden (intransitive v., derivative of the adj.); Old English gemǣd (e )d, past participle of *gemǣdan to make mad, akin to gemād mad, foolish; cognate with Old Saxon gemēd, Old High German gimeit foolish

Other words from Madding

half-mad , adjective
half-mad·ly , adverb
half-mad·ness , noun
qua·si-mad , adjective
qua·si-mad·ly , adverb
un·mad , adjective
un·mad·ded , adjective

Word origin for Madding

Old English gemǣded, past participle of gemǣdan to render insane; related to gemād insane, and to Old High German gimeit silly, crazy, Old Norse meitha to hurt, damage

Synonyms for Madding

agitated, angry, at wits' end, berserk, beside oneself, corybantic, crazy, delirious, deranged, distraught, excited, flipped out, fraught, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hot and bothered, hot under the collar, hyper, hysterical, in a stew, in a tizzy, insane, keyed up, mad, out of control, overwrought, panic-stricken, rabid, raging, raving, shook up, spazzed out, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, violent, weird, weirded out, wigged out, wild, wired, worked up, zonkers