Synonyms of mad

mad 1 of 3

adjective

ˈmad 

1

as in angry

feeling or showing anger

the constant harassment from telemarketers finally made her good and mad

Synonyms & Similar Words

• angry
• enraged
• outraged
• furious
• infuriated
• indignant
• angered
• ballistic
• infuriate
• annoyed
• irate
• rabid
• passionate
• irritable
• sore
• wrathful
• fuming
• incensed
• apoplectic
• livid
• hot
• riled
• in a huff
• hot under the collar
• ireful
• hopping mad
• inflamed
• choleric
• bent out of shape
• blue in the face
• steaming
• wroth
• fit to be tied
• foaming
• in a fume
• exasperated
• hopping
• in a pet
• shirty
• horn-mad
• ticked
• cheesed off
• aggravated
• going crook
• rankled
• riley
• roiled
• seething
• ranting
• vindictive
• steamed up
• spiteful
• vengeful
• boiling
• resentful
• embittered
• raving
• unpleasant
• malevolent
• huffy
• sulky
• antisocial
• cross
• antagonistic
• virulent
• teed off
• grumpy
• disagreeable
• stormy
• burning
• sizzling
• peevish
• bristling
• petulant
• worked up
• antipathetic
• irascible
• icy
• cold
• fretful
• rancorous
• acrimonious
• cantankerous
• wrought (up)
• perturbed
• belligerent
• vitriolic
• grouchy
• smoldering
• bitter
• snappish
• distant
• bristly
• unfriendly
• inimical
• cranky
• frigid
• acrid
• churlish
• disapproving
• querulous
• bilious
• crabby
• testy
• ornery
• pugnacious
• touchy
• inflammable
• cool
• fussy
• dyspeptic
• quarrelsome
• ill-tempered
• argumentative
• sorehead
• piqued
• contentious
• ill-humored
• contrary
• disputatious
• bearish
• quick-tempered
• put out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• delighted
• pleased
• accepting
• happy
• agreeable
• friendly
• amenable
• complaisant
• sympathetic
• satisfied
• accommodating
• content
• cordial
• angerless
• amicable
• calm
• obliging
• empathetic
• tolerant
• sweet
• understanding
• pleasant
• kind
• serene
• peaceable
• amiable
• placid
• tranquil
• pacific
• good-natured
• easygoing
• affable
• genial
• unembittered
• good-tempered

2

as in insane

unable to think in a clear or sensible way

the man who thinks he's been turned into a bug is clearly mad

Synonyms & Similar Words

• insane
• psychotic
• maniacal
• crazy
• nuts
• mental
• crazed
• disturbed
• psycho
• demented
• unhinged
• deranged
• foolish
• loco
• depressed
• unbalanced
• daft
• off
• around the bend
• batty
• irrational
• bonkers
• strange
• nutty
• cracked
• obsessed
• haywire
• non compos mentis
• out to lunch
• certifiable
• eccentric
• brainsick
• queer
• distraught
• distracted
• unsound
• fey
• unreasonable
• ballistic
• frantic
• crackers
• wud
• bats
• delirious
• loopy
• hysterical
• delusional
• off one's rocker
• off one's gourd
• off one's head
• disordered
• odd
• nuclear
• out of one's head
• delusionary
• dotty
• touched
• berserk
• aberrant
• oddball
• witless
• pixilated
• raving
• potty
• senseless
• frenzied
• teched
• ape
• monomaniacal
• fixated
• monomaniac
• bananas
• wigged-out
• amok

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sane
• sound
• reasonable
• balanced
• clear
• rational
• wise
• normal
• sensible
• lucid
• uncrazy
• compos mentis
• judicious
• healthy
• well-adjusted
• unneurotic

3

as in frantic

marked by great and often stressful excitement or activity

a mad rush to finish the shopping before Christmas

Synonyms & Similar Words

• frantic
• furious
• fierce
• intense
• intensive
• violent
• ferocious
• delirious
• frenzied
• frenetic
• feverish
• rabid
• wild
• excessive
• concentrated
• extreme
• irrational
• vehement
• insane
• undue
• crazed
• crazy
• exorbitant
• inordinate
• maniacal
• demented
• extravagant
• unconscionable
• immoderate
• deranged
• lavish
• high-pressured
• overweening
• overmuch

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• calm
• quiet
• reasonable
• undisturbed
• peaceful
• serene
• moderate
• tranquil
• placid
• relaxed
• subdued
• temperate
• sound
• unperturbed
• casual
• sane
• untroubled
• balanced
• easygoing
• low-pressure

4

as in stupid

showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment

her mad decision to quit a good job and run off to the big city with a man she barely knew

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stupid
• insane
• foolish
• crazy
• silly
• absurd
• idiotic
• irrational
• lunatic
• fool
• dumb
• loony
• ridiculous
• unreasonable
• nutty
• cuckoo
• daft
• wacky
• zany
• wacko
• simple
• unwise
• nonsensical
• gaga
• weak
• kooky
• batty
• fatuous
• senseless
• dippy
• witless
• daffy
• asinine
• unreasoning
• slow
• jerky
• simpleminded
• preposterous
• out to lunch
• inept
• dotty
• crackbrained
• weak-minded
• crackpot
• barmy
• brainless
• harebrained
• loony tunes
• sappy
• screwball
• cockeyed
• balmy
• tomfool
• meshuga
• moronic
• bubbleheaded
• half-baked
• half-witted
• imbecile
• thoughtless
• unreasoned
• lunkheaded
• clueless
• featherheaded
• dull
• illogical
• feebleminded
• fruity
• thickheaded
• doltish
• dopey
• obtuse
• unintelligent
• mindless
• lamebrain
• brain-dead
• dense
• pinheaded
• dunderheaded
• dim
• ludicrous
• invalid
• opaque
• vacuous
• empty-headed
• dorky
• oafish
• fallacious
• softheaded
• laughable
• thick
• nonrational
• farcical
• gormless
• surd
• soft
• chuckleheaded
• unsound
• dim-witted
• knuckleheaded
• clownish
• slow-witted
• airheaded
• boobish
• chowderheaded
• buffoonish
• notional
• ill-advised
• birdbrained
• unconsidered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wise
• sound
• sane
• sensible
• prudent
• judicious
• intelligent
• clever
• smart
• reasonable
• bright
• rational
• valid
• logical
• sagacious
• sage
• sapient
• brainy
• well-advised

mad

2 of 3

noun

as in anger

an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something

watch out, the boss has got a bit of a mad on just now

Synonyms & Similar Words

• anger
• indignation
• rage
• fury
• wrath
• outrage
• mood
• wrathfulness
• madness
• irritation
• exasperation
• slow burn
• irritability
• jealousy
• ire
• contempt
• furor
• resentment
• annoyance
• spleen
• bitterness
• temper
• grudge
• choler
• hostility
• angriness
• birse
• envy
• irateness
• outburst
• malice
• lividity
• lividness
• animosity
• venom
• spite
• enmity
• antipathy
• bile
• antagonism
• vexation
• aggravation
• embitterment
• malevolence
• jaundice
• vindictiveness
• biliousness
• belligerence
• pique
• rancor
• pugnacity
• virulence
• vengefulness
• vitriol
• heat
• delirium
• irascibility
• acrimony
• crankiness
• huff
• pet
• dudgeon
• querulousness
• contentiousness
• flare
• quarrelsomeness
• blowup
• contrariness
• warmth
• pugnaciousness
• rise
• road rage
• hot-headedness
• orneriness
• passion
• irascibleness
• acrimoniousness
• dander
• disputatiousness
• empoisonment
• ruffle
• chafe
• air rage
• flare-up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pleasure
• delight
• patience
• forbearance
• calmness

mad

3 of 3

verb

as in to anger

to make angry

her endless excuses for not doing the work madded her overburdened coworkers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• anger
• infuriate
• enrage
• annoy
• outrage
• irritate
• rile
• ire
• madden
• offend
• steam up
• inflame
• roil
• rub the wrong way
• tick off
• aggravate
• rankle
• provoke
• incense
• vex
• huff
• exasperate
• miff
• affront
• burn (up)
• get
• get one's goat
• put out
• peeve
• pique
• cross
• ruffle
• antagonize
• nettle
• embitter
• envenom

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• please
• delight
• gratify
• relieve
• allay
• soothe
• assuage
• comfort
• appease
• placate
• calm
• console
• pacify
• quiet
• conciliate
• settle
• charm
• lull
• mollify
• disarm
• beguile
• bewitch
• captivate
• enchant

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mad

Adjective

Street stylers were also mad for suede bags, which mix practicality and polish. — Irene Kim, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026

When the Farmer destroys the flock’s pumpkin patch, Shaun turns mad scientist, concocting a growth potion to put things right. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

If mortgages cost 15% and hyperscalers are still spending like there’s no tomorrow, people are going to be very mad at both of them. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary theorist and author of the groundbreaking best seller The Selfish Gene (1976), among many other books, appears to have gone a bit mad. — James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026

Phrases Containing mad

• hopping mad
• mad (about)