Kinda vs. Mad
Kinda vs. Mad
Test how “Kinda” and “Mad” look in your own writing.
Kinda
Term A(colloquial) kind of; somewhat
Example: ‘I kinda hafta do this right now.’; ‘That's kinda funny.’;
Yes in some respects but no in other respects.
Example: ‘"Are you afraid of a little bit of rain?" "Kinda, yeah."’;
A subspecies of baboon, Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.
to some (great or small) extent;
Example: ‘it was rather cold’; ‘the party was rather nice’; ‘the knife is rather dull’; ‘I rather regret that I cannot attend’; ‘He's rather good at playing the cello’; ‘he is kind of shy’;
Mad
Term BInsane; crazy, mentally deranged.
Example: ‘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.’;
Angry, annoyed.
Example: ‘Are you mad at me?’;
Wildly confused or excited.
Example: ‘to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred’;
Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
Example: ‘Aren't you just mad for that red dress?’;
(of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
Example: ‘a mad dog’;
Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.
Example: ‘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.’;
(of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.
Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
Example: ‘He was driving mad slow.’; ‘It's mad hot today.’; ‘He seems mad keen on her.’;
To be or become mad.
To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
p. p. of Made.
Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.
Example: ‘I have heard my grandsire say full oft,Extremity of griefs would make men mad.’;
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.
Example: ‘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.’;
Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.
Example: ‘Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.’; ‘The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled.’;
Extravagant; immoderate.
Furious with rage, terror, or disease; - said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.
Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
Having impaired polarity; - applied to a compass needle.
To make mad or furious; to madden.
Example: ‘Had I but seen thy picture in this plight,It would have madded me.’;
To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.
Example: ‘Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest.’;
An earthworm.
roused to anger;
Example: ‘stayed huffy a good while’; ‘she gets mad when you wake her up so early’; ‘mad at his friend’; ‘sore over a remark’;
affected with madness or insanity;
Example: ‘a man who had gone mad’;
marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion;
Example: ‘a crowd of delirious baseball fans’; ‘something frantic in their gaiety’; ‘a mad whirl of pleasure’;
very foolish;
Example: ‘harebrained ideas’; ‘took insane risks behind the wheel’; ‘a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains’;
mentally ill; insane
Example: ‘he felt as if he were going mad’;
(of behaviour or an idea) extremely foolish; not sensible
Example: ‘Antony's mother told him he was mad to be leaving Dublin’;
in a frenzied mental or physical state
Example: ‘she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her’; ‘it was a mad dash to get ready’;
(of a dog) rabid.
very enthusiastic about someone or something
Example: ‘he's mad about football’; ‘another myth is that Scorpios are sex-mad’;
very exciting.
very angry
Example: ‘don't be mad at me’;
great; remarkable
Example: ‘this author has mad skills with the written word’; ‘I got mad respect for him’;
very; extremely
Example: ‘he was mad cool—we immediately hit it off’;
make (someone) mad
Example: ‘had I but seen thy picture in this plight, it would have madded me’;
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