madness

madness /'mædnis/
  • danh từ
    • chứng điên, chứng rồ dại; sự mất trí
    • sự giận dữ

Xem thêm: lunacy, insaneness, rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, fury, rage, folly, foolishness, craziness, rabidity, rabidness



madness

Từ điển Collocation

madness noun

ADJ. absolute, pure, sheer, utter It's sheer madness to go sailing in weather like this.

PHRASES the first sign of madness They say that talking to yourself is the first sign of madness! | a moment of madness In a moment of madness, I said I'd help him.


Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • obsolete terms for legal insanity; lunacy, insaneness
  • an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain; rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa
  • a feeling of intense anger; fury, rage

    hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

    his face turned red with rage

  • the quality of being rash and foolish; folly, foolishness, craziness

    trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly

    adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness

  • unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; rabidity, rabidness

    poetry is a sort of divine madness


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: craziness folly foolishness fury hydrophobia insaneness lunacy lyssa rabidity rabidness rabies rage