Antonyms for rabid

Grammar : Adj

Spell : rab-id

Phonetic Transcription : ˈræb ɪd

Definition of rabid

Origin : 1610s, "furious, raving," from Latin rabidus "raging, furious, enraged; inspired; ungoverned; rabid," from rabere "be mad, rave" (see rage (v.)). Meaning "made mad by rabies" in English first recorded 1804. Related: Rabidly; rabidness.

adj very angry; maniacal

Example sentences :

And as for aristocrats, my friend, there are none so rabid as the newly-converted.
Extract from : « The Trampling of the Lilies » by Rafael Sabatini

"It's a wonder, with his rabid temper, that he didn't do so," said O'Gorman.
Extract from : « Mary Louise in the Country » by L. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)

Then, as if to escape the subject, was her Uncle Nicholas as rabid a teetotaller as ever?
Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller

And at last they exterminated the rabid thing that ran among them.
Extract from : « Lorraine » by Robert W. Chambers

He's a rabid teetotaller for one thing, and he's extremely religious.
Extract from : « Lady Bountiful » by George A. Birmingham

Are you as rabid as my brother and the Colonel because the poor man has dared to marry?
Extract from : « Captain Desmond, V.C. » by Maud Diver

But there was Lily, who, with all her people, was a rabid Democrat.
Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old New York » by Amanda Millie Douglas

You are every whit as rabid as I am when it comes to the scratch.
Extract from : « Carl and the Cotton Gin » by Sara Ware Bassett

If there was one subject the two ladies were rabid on it was politics.
Extract from : « The Willoughby Captains » by Talbot Baines Reed

I must except politics, however, for in these he could be rabid and savage.
Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Synonyms for rabid

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