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
• indignant
• infuriated
• angered
• ballistic
• infuriate
• rabid
• annoyed
• passionate
• irate
• irritable
• sore
• wrathful
• incensed
• hot
• fuming
• apoplectic
• livid
• 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
• exasperated
• in a fume
• aggravated
• hopping
• in a pet
• shirty
• horn-mad
• enflamed
• ticked
• cheesed off
• 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
• burning
• stormy
• sizzling
• bristling
• peevish
• petulant
• worked up
• antipathetic
• icy
• irascible
• fretful
• rancorous
• acrimonious
• bitter
• cantankerous
• wrought (up)
• smoldering
• perturbed
• cold
• belligerent
• vitriolic
• grouchy
• distant
• snappish
• smouldering
• bristly
• unfriendly
• inimical
• frigid
• acrid
• churlish
• disapproving
• querulous
• bilious
• crabby
• cranky
• testy
• ornery
• pugnacious
• touchy
• inflammable
• cool
• fussy
• dyspeptic
• quarrelsome
• ill-tempered
• argumentative
• sorehead
• soreheaded
• 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 psychotic

having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• psychotic
• lunatic
• insane
• nuts
• crazy
• maniac
• gaga
• maniacal
• mental
• paranoid
• crazed
• disturbed
• psycho
• paranoidal
• looney
• deranged
• cuckoo
• demented
• whacky
• irrational
• loony
• whacko
• strange
• unhinged
• wacko
• cracked
• nutty
• daft
• batty
• screwy
• unbalanced
• depressed
• foolish
• bedlam
• haywire
• ballistic
• bonkers
• eccentric
• around the bend
• obsessed
• wacky
• certifiable
• crackbrained
• moonstruck
• loony tunes
• barmy
• scatty
• loco
• daffy
• meshuga
• kooky
• unreasonable
• non compos mentis
• odd
• out to lunch
• distraught
• crackpot
• hysteric
• bughouse
• brainsick
• bats
• distracted
• kookie
• frantic
• cranky
• unsound
• looney tunes
• meshugah
• wud
• meshuggah
• hysterical
• off
• meshugge
• paranoic
• fey
• neurotic
• delirious
• tetched
• loopy
• queer
• balmy
• crackers
• fruity
• schizophrenic
• delusional
• out of one's mind
• off one's rocker
• paranoiac
• off one's gourd
• disordered
• schizoid
• touched
• off one's head
• obsessive-compulsive
• sociopathic
• delusionary
• dotty
• out of one's head
• nuclear
• berserk
• aberrant
• oddball
• pixillated
• witless
• pixilated
• raving
• amuck
• potty
• senseless
• frenzied
• ape
• teched
• monomaniacal
• wigged-out
• amok
• fixated
• monomaniac
• bananas

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
• crazy
• concentrated
• extreme
• irrational
• crazed
• vehement
• insane
• lunatic
• undue
• exorbitant
• inordinate
• deranged
• maniacal
• demented
• extravagant
• unconscionable
• immoderate
• lavish
• maniac
• 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
• foolish
• crazy
• silly
• absurd
• insane
• lunatic
• idiotic
• irrational
• looney
• fool
• dumb
• ridiculous
• loony
• whacky
• nutty
• daft
• idiotical
• zany
• weak
• unreasonable
• simple
• cuckoo
• unwise
• wacky
• nonsensical
• slow
• fatuous
• senseless
• dippy
• witless
• asinine
• kooky
• jerky
• simpleminded
• preposterous
• out to lunch
• inept
• dotty
• daffy
• weak-minded
• brainless
• harebrained
• sappy
• unreasoning
• crackpot
• screwball
• cockeyed
• tomfool
• moronic
• kookie
• balmy
• bubbleheaded
• half-baked
• half-witted
• imbecile
• lunkheaded
• thoughtless
• clueless
• featherheaded
• illogical
• unreasoned
• feebleminded
• dull
• thickheaded
• imbecilic
• doltish
• dopey
• obtuse
• unintelligent
• mindless
• dim
• dense
• lamebrain
• brain-dead
• pinheaded
• dunderheaded
• ludicrous
• invalid
• vacuous
• dorky
• opaque
• oafish
• thick
• fallacious
• softheaded
• laughable
• dopy
• soft
• nonrational
• farcical
• lamebrained
• surd
• chuckleheaded
• unsound
• dim-witted
• gormless
• empty-headed
• 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
• enflame
• 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

Examples of mad in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Yet the boom times of the post-Covid era created a wave of euphoria in the industry, ushering in a burst of IPOs and startups, and a mad scramble for jets and pilots. —Robert Frank, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024

This sudden inspiration produced one of the greatest endings in French cinema—a solitary man’s journey from sea to shore to town and from one life path to another, carrying the secret experiential treasures of his mad adventures with him. —Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2024

In fact, some activists, such as Nelson Peltz’s Trian Management, only publicized their position after the CEO swap amidst a mad rush to jump on the bandwagon of success. —Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024

Kid Koala, born Eric San, emerged in the mid-1990s as a scratcher with mad turntable skills and a knack for incorporating odd musical samples (everything from Charlie Brown TV special snippets to comedy routines to people sneezing) to grand effect. —Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024

Phrases Containing mad

• hopping mad
• mad (about)