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Anger vs. Mad

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Angernoun

A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.

‘You need to control your anger.’;

Madadjective

Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.

‘You want to spend $1000 on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?’; ‘He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.’;

Angernoun

(obsolete) Pain or stinging.

Madadjective

Angry, annoyed.

‘Are you mad at me?’;

Angerverb

(transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

‘He who angers you conquers you.’;

Madadjective

Wildly confused or excited.

‘to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred’;

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Angerverb

(intransitive) To become angry.

‘You anger too easily.’;

Madadjective

Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.

Angernoun

Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.

‘I made the experiment, setting the moxa where . . . the greatest anger and soreness still continued.’;

Madadjective

Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.

‘Aren't you just mad for that red dress?’;

Angernoun

A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.

‘Anger is likeA full hot horse, who being allowed his way,Self-mettle tires him.’;

Madadjective

(of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.

‘a mad dog’;

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Angerverb

To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.

‘He . . . angereth malign ulcers.’;

Madadjective

Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.

‘I gotta give you mad props for scoring us those tickets.’; ‘Their lead guitarist has mad skills.’; ‘There are always mad girls at those parties.’;

Angerverb

To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.

‘Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people.’;

Madadjective

(of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.

Angernoun

a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance

Madadverb

Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.

‘He was driving mad slow.’; ‘It's mad hot today.’; ‘He seems mad keen on her.’;

Angernoun

the state of being angry

Madverb

To be or become mad.

Angernoun

belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Madverb

To madden, to anger, to frustrate.

Angerverb

make angry;

‘The news angered him’;

Mad

p. p. of Made.

Angerverb

become angry;

‘He angers easily’;

Madadjective

Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.

‘I have heard my grandsire say full oft,Extremity of griefs would make men mad.’;

Angernoun

a strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility

‘the colonel's anger at his daughter's disobedience’;

Madadjective

Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.

‘It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.’; ‘And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.’;

Angerverb

fill (someone) with anger; provoke anger in

‘he was angered that he had not been told’; ‘she was angered by his terse answer’;

Madadjective

Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.

‘Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.’; ‘The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled.’;

Anger

Anger, also known as wrath or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat.A person experiencing anger will often experience physical effects, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and increased levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as an emotion which triggers part of the fight or flight response.

Madadjective

Extravagant; immoderate.

Madadjective

Furious with rage, terror, or disease; - said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

Madadjective

Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.

Madadjective

Having impaired polarity; - applied to a compass needle.

Madverb

To make mad or furious; to madden.

‘Had I but seen thy picture in this plight,It would have madded me.’;

Madverb

To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.

‘Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest.’;

Madnoun

An earthworm.

Madadjective

roused to anger;

‘stayed huffy a good while’; ‘she gets mad when you wake her up so early’; ‘mad at his friend’; ‘sore over a remark’;

Madadjective

affected with madness or insanity;

‘a man who had gone mad’;

Madadjective

marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion;

‘a crowd of delirious baseball fans’; ‘something frantic in their gaiety’; ‘a mad whirl of pleasure’;

Madadjective

very foolish;

‘harebrained ideas’; ‘took insane risks behind the wheel’; ‘a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains’;

Madadjective

mentally ill; insane

‘he felt as if he were going mad’;

Madadjective

(of behaviour or an idea) extremely foolish; not sensible

‘Antony's mother told him he was mad to be leaving Dublin’;

Madadjective

in a frenzied mental or physical state

‘she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her’; ‘it was a mad dash to get ready’;

Madadjective

(of a dog) rabid.

Madadjective

very enthusiastic about someone or something

‘he's mad about football’; ‘another myth is that Scorpios are sex-mad’;

Madadjective

very exciting.

Madadjective

very angry

‘don't be mad at me’;

Madadjective

great; remarkable

‘this author has mad skills with the written word’; ‘I got mad respect for him’;

Madadverb

very; extremely

‘he was mad cool—we immediately hit it off’;

Madverb

make (someone) mad

‘had I but seen thy picture in this plight, it would have madded me’;

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