mad: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 6 letter points · starts with M · ends with D
Meaning of mad
adj
- UK
Insane; crazy; mentally deranged.
Example: You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?
- US, informal
Angry; annoyed.
Example: Are you mad at me?
- US, informal
Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
Example: Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.
- Ireland, UK, informal
Bizarre; incredible.
Example: It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.
Listed forms: madder, maddest.
Source: Wiktionary — mad.
adv
- Ireland, New-York, UK, dialectal, not-comparable, slang
Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
Example: He was driving mad slow.
Source: Wiktionary — mad.
verb
- Jamaica, US, colloquial
To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
- intransitive, obsolete
To be or become mad.
Listed forms: mads, madding, madded.
Source: Wiktionary — mad.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for mad.
adjective
roused to anger
adjective
affected with madness or insanity
adjective
marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
adjective
very foolish
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is mad in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of mad
M(3) + A(1) + D(2) = 6 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of mad
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from mad
4 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in mad. Showing up to 24, longest first.