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mad
Synonyms and Antonyms of mad
- The constant harassment from telemarketers finally made her good and mad.
angered, angry, apoplectic, ballistic, choleric, enraged, foaming, fuming, furious, hopping, horn-mad, hot, incensed, indignant, inflamed (also enflamed), infuriate, infuriated, irate, ireful, livid, outraged, rabid, rankled, riled, roiled, sore, steamed up, steaming, teed off, ticked, wrathful, wroth
boiling, bristling, bristly, burning, cross, huffy, passionate, seething, sizzling, smoldering (or smouldering), worked up, wrought (up)
acrid, acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, bitter, embittered, inimical, malevolent, piqued, rancorous, resentful, spiteful, vengeful, vindictive, virulent, vitriolic
antisocial, cold, cool, disagreeable, disapproving, distant, frigid, icy, ill-tempered, sorehead (or soreheaded), sulky, unfriendly, unpleasant
aggravated, annoyed, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, crabby, cranky, dyspeptic, exasperated, fretful, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, peevish, perturbed, petulant, put out, quick-tempered, snappish, testy, touchy
argumentative, belligerent, contentious, contrary, disputatious, ornery, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous
bent out of shape, blue in the face, fit to be tied, hopping mad, hot under the collar, in a fume, in a huff, in a pet
- a movie about a mad scientist
balmy, bats, batty, bedlam, bonkers, brainsick, certifiable, crackbrained, cracked, crackpot, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, gaga, insane, kooky (also kookie), loco [slang], loony (also looney), lunatic, maniacal (also maniac), mental, non compos mentis, nuts, nutty, psychotic, screwy, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacky (also whacky)
dotty, fey, loopy, off, teched (or tetched), touched
aberrant, delirious, delusional, delusionary, disordered, disturbed, neurotic, paranoiac (also paranoic), paranoid (also paranoidal), sociopathic
eccentric, odd, oddball, strange
amok (or amuck), ape, ballistic, bananas, berserk, nuclear
distracted, distraught, frantic, frenzied, haywire, hysterical (also hysteric), raving
around the bend, off one's gourd, off one's head, off one's rocker, out of one's head (or mind)
- a mad rush to finish packing before the trip
- a mad decision to drive home through the storm
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, inept, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, lunkheaded, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany
airheaded, birdbrained, brain-dead, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clueless, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, feebleminded, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), mindless, moronic, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, thoughtless, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, vacuous, witless
fallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, unreasonable, unreasoning, unsound, weak
out to lunch
mad
Synonyms and Antonyms of mad
- Watch out, the boss has got a bit of a mad on just now.
aggravation, annoyance, exasperation, irritation, vexation
acrimoniousness, acrimony, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bile, bitterness, contempt, embitterment, enmity, grudge, hostility, rancor
envy, jaundice, jealousy, pique, resentment
malevolence, malice, spite, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol
belligerence, contentiousness, contrariness, crankiness, disputatiousness, hot-headedness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, orneriness, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, querulousness
blowup, flare, flare-up, outburst
slow burn
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