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Antonyms for madly
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : mad-lee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæd li |
Definition of madly
Origin :- early 13c., from mad (adj.) + -ly (2). Colloquial meaning "passionately" had emerged by 18c.
- adj wildly, fiercely
- Madly she struggled again and again to get her hind legs to work.
- Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton
- It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- How madly I am trusting you; and yet my heart tells me how wisely!
- Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
- You love the Signorina madly, and you hate me because you are jealous of me—because I am young and you are old.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- The Marchesino had told him nothing, except that he—Artois—was madly in love with Vere.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- Davy was reeling about madly, and singing and laughing in gust on gust.
- Extract from : « Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon » by Hall Caine
- Moreover, she was an actress, and the patroon was madly in love with her.
- Extract from : « The Strollers » by Frederic S. Isham
- The survivors were in two sorts of panic—the comatose, and the madly violent.
- Extract from : « The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 » by Various
- But Freddie loved Mozart, loved his music so madly that it was my turn to become jealous.
- Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
- The brute in him urged him as madly in his desire as it did in his harsher tempers.
- Extract from : « The Twins of Suffering Creek » by Ridgwell Cullum
Synonyms for madly
- absurdly
- crazily
- deliriously
- dementedly
- desperately
- devotedly
- distractedly
- energetically
- exceedingly
- excessively
- excitedly
- extremely
- foolishly
- frantically
- frenziedly
- furiously
- hard
- hastily
- hurriedly
- hysterically
- insanely
- intensely
- irrationally
- like mad
- ludicrously
- nonsensically
- passionately
- psychotically
- quickly
- rabidly
- rapidly
- rashly
- recklessly
- senselessly
- something fierce
- speedily
- stormily
- to distraction
- tumultously/tumultuously
- turbulently
- unreasonably
- violently
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