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Definitions in simple English

mad

If you are mad, you are angry. I am so mad at you for ruining my painting. If you are mad, you are insane. He says he hears voices. I think he's gone mad!

mad

(= huffy, sore) roused to anger stayed huffy a good while — Mark Twain she gets mad when you wake her up so early mad at his friend sore over a remark affected with madness or insanity a man who had gone mad (= delirious, frantic) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion a crowd of delirious baseball fans something frantic in their gaiety a mad whirl of pleasure (= harebrained, insane) very foolish harebrained ideas took insane risks behind the wheel a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains

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MAD English » English

Mutual Assured Destruction

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Simple sentences

I bet the teacher's going to get mad!
Has the world gone mad?
Have you gone mad?
You don't want to make Tom mad, do you?
You've gone mad.
I got so mad I wasn't able to speak.
I hope you're not mad at me.
I thought you might be mad at me.
I'm mad at both of you.
I'm still mad at you.
He was still mad about the accident despite his wife's conciliatory words.
For a moment there, I thought he had gone mad.
No, I'm not mad at you, I'm just disappointed.
She is mad at me.
You are mad to try to do it all alone.
Are you mad?
He was so sad that he almost went mad.
Your wife is mad at you.
He got mad at me for calling him Shorty.
The poet went mad in the end.
Is he mad that he should say such a foolish thing?

Movie subtitles

Stormed out, like mad.
Thanks, Booboo. Valencia's so mad at me.
If you get mad at me, I understand.
One, I am still mad at you, and two, please have Dad at the anniversary party by 5:00.
Danny: Don't get mad at me!
Well, it's driving me mad.
I know that you're mad at me, but you cannot shut me out.
He was really mad at her.
That's mad.
This is just mad.
I don't know what I did to make Morgyn so mad at me.
Was she mad?
You're mad at Oliver, not the shoe.
I'm not mad at Oliver, I'm mad at myself.
Mmm, well, yeah. I mean, she might seem a little mad right now, but, deep down, I know she loves you.
No need to remind you how mad for gossip we Brits are.
Have you gone mad, young lady!
You are really mad.
Are you trying to make me mad?
That's what made her mad.
Those women must be mad.
Why, he's mad!
There you have his mad dream.
Has she gone mad?
Have you all gone mad?
But you're capricious. You're a little bit mad.
Why, you must be mad.
Nick was never really mad at me.
It was like she was, like, mad at me for something.
Valencia's so mad at me.
Look. I know that you're mad at me, but you cannot shut me out.
The good Madame Daughter has gone stark raving mad.
The shock made her half-mad.
You mean there's a mountain over in Germany gets mad at a field over in France?
I hope Pop won't be mad.
The old man's like a mad bull.
You're not mad because I borrowed the studio, are you?
Are you mad?

News and current affairs

They have only recently been recognized as the cause of several infectious diseases, including mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which kill by crowding out healthy brain cells.
China's mad rush toward fuqiang (wealth and power) has given it little chance to develop all the compensatory institutions that any truly developed, not to say enlightened, society needs to achieve equilibrium and social health.
MAD simply won't work for a mad man who is guided by quasi-messianic certitude.
But it is neither useful nor very plausible to assume that Kim Jong-un and his military advisers are mad.
Can we have a productive dialogue with Iran while rejecting the mad ideology of its president?
Democracy may seem like a mad dream in a community of 27 nation-states, and perhaps it is.
MAD No More?
Others declare that we must kick the fossil fuel habit and make a mad dash for renewable energy sources such as solar or wind power.
And after all, you can't have a final, utopian society without having a final, scientific theory of human behavior, together with some mad scientists or philosophes to preside over the whole thing.
Seventy-nine years ago, Germany went mad.
The mad pursuit of corporate profits is threatening us all.
In Europe, mad cow disease shocked many people, not only because it shattered beef's image as a safe and healthy food, but also because they learned that the disease was caused by feeding cattle the brains and nerve tissue of sheep.
A second cause for worry is that the world is poised to enter a new nuclear age that threatens to be even more dangerous and expensive than the Cold War era of mutually assured destruction (MAD).
Meanwhile, state governments, seeing revenues fall as a result of lower taxable incomes last year, are cutting back like mad.
The US financial sector went mad for high-risk loans to emerging markets during 1970s - arguing that this was the new frontier.
After all, he starred in the 2011 film about the life of the mad monk Grigory Rasputin.
Mao launched the Cultural Revolution (1965-76) to take revenge against those who opposed his mad programs.
Those were the days when global peace was sustained by a concept known suitably enough by the acronym MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction.
The event is so hideous that it seems like a bad joke, or an evil KGB plot, a mad conspiracy out of James Bond - or some combination of all three.
Russia can have its Caucasus, and if the generals in Myanmar should go mad, it would become China's and India's problem to sort out.