Antonyms for mads

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : mad

Phonetic Transcription : mæd

Definition of mads

Origin : late 13c., from Old English gemædde (plural) "out of one's mind" (usually implying also violent excitement), also "foolish, extremely stupid," earlier gemæded "rendered insane," past participle of a lost verb *gemædan "to make insane or foolish," from Proto-Germanic *ga-maid-jan, demonstrative form of *ga-maid-az "changed (for the worse), abnormal" (cf. Old Saxon gimed "foolish," Old High German gimeit "foolish, vain, boastful," Gothic gamaiþs "crippled, wounded," Old Norse meiða "to hurt, maim"), from intensive prefix *ga- + PIE *moito-, past participle of root *mei- "to change" (cf. Latin mutare "to change," mutuus "done in exchange," migrare "to change one's place of residence;" see mutable).
Emerged in Middle English to replace the more usual Old English word, wod (see wood (adj.)). Sense of "beside oneself with excitement or enthusiasm" is from early 14c. Meaning "beside oneself with anger" is attested from early 14c., but deplored by Rev. John Witherspoon (1781) as an Americanism. It now competes in American English with angry for this sense. Of animals, "affected with rabies," from late 13c. Phrase mad as a March hare is attested from 1520s, via notion of breeding season; mad as a hatter is from 1829 as "demented," 1837 as "enraged," according to a modern theory supposedly from erratic behavior caused by prolonged exposure to poison mercuric nitrate, used in making felt hats. For mad as a wet hen see hen. Mad money is attested from 1922; mad scientist is from 1891.

As in indignation : noun anger
As in rampage : noun storm, violence
As in wrath : noun extreme anger
As in irateness : noun anger
As in tizzy : noun anger
As in anger : noun state of being mad, annoyed
As in incense : verb make very angry

Example sentences :

But this other matter—of your expulsion thus, mads me to the heart.
Extract from : « A Select Collection of Old English Plays (11 of 15) » by W. Carew Hazlitt

Mingling with the shout came the splash of Mads' plunge into the water.
Extract from : « Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 » by Various

Like a drowned man, a fool and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
Extract from : « Toaster's Handbook » by Peggy Edmund and Harold W. Williams, compilers

Fully roused at last, Mads Nilssen seized his oars and pulled till they seemed on the point of snapping; but all in vain.
Extract from : « Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 » by Various

She says he has mads the whiles you is Krisht und makes all things what is loving mit Sheenies.
Extract from : « Little Aliens » by Myra Kelly

One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett

A little past noon Mads and Mikkel went out together, the latter to order a conveyance in one of the villages lying to the west.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 » by Various

The jade is as dead as a herring,” cried Mads, by way of comforting her; “she did not even hear the report.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 » by Various

He's only got to keep well to the right of Mads Hansen's farm, and he's got a straight road before him.
Extract from : « Pelle the Conqueror, Complete » by Martin Anderson Nexo

Synonyms for mads

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