Mad vs. Happy

Insane; 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’;

Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.

Example: ‘Music makes me feel happy.’;

Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.

Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).

Example: ‘Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?’; ‘Yes, I am happy with the decision.’;

Of acts, speech, etc.: appropriate, apt, felicitous.

Example: ‘a happy coincidence’;

(in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.

Example: ‘slaphappy, trigger-happy’;

(rare) Of persons, especially when referring to their ability to express themselves (often followed by at or in): dexterous, ready, skilful.

preceded by the: happy people as a group.

A happy event, thing, person, etc.

(intransitive) Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.

(transitive) Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.

Example: ‘Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them.’;

Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.

Example: ‘Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.’; ‘The learned is happy Nature to explore,The fool is happy that he knows no more.’;

Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.

Example: ‘One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder.’;

enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune;

Example: ‘a happy smile’; ‘spent many happy days on the beach’; ‘a happy marriage’;

experiencing pleasure or joy;

Example: ‘happy you are here’; ‘pleased with the good news’;

marked by good fortune;

Example: ‘a felicitous life’; ‘a happy outcome’;

satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment;

Example: ‘felt content with her lot’; ‘quite happy to let things go on as they are’;

exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation

well expressed and to the point;

Example: ‘a happy turn of phrase’; ‘a few well-chosen words’; ‘a felicitous comment’;

feeling or showing pleasure or contentment

Example: ‘they are happy to see me doing well’; ‘Melissa came in looking happy and excited’; ‘we're just happy that he's still alive’;

having a sense of trust and confidence in (a person, arrangement, or situation)

Example: ‘he was not happy about the proposals’;

satisfied with the quality or standard of

Example: ‘I'm happy with his performance’;

willing to do something

Example: ‘we will be happy to advise you’;

used in greetings

Example: ‘happy Christmas’;

fortunate and convenient

Example: ‘he had the happy knack of making people like him’;

inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random

Example: ‘they tended to be grenade-happy’;