madlyadv.

Brit.

/ˈmadli/, U.S.

/ˈmædli/

Forms: early Middle English madliche, early Middle English madloker (comparative), early Middle English meadliche, early Middle English meadluker (comparative), early Middle English meaðluker (comparative), early Middle English medliche, late Middle English madli, late Middle English–1500s madlie, late Middle English– madly.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mad adj., -ly suffix².

Etymology: < mad adj. + -ly suffix². Compare mad adv.

1. In a mad, wild, insane, or foolish manner. (In modern use often somewhat colloquial)

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adverb] > madly

woodlyc1000

madlyc1225

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's wit1470–85

bedlamlya1569

bedlamlike1576

distractedly1608

madling1608

monthly1611

brainsicklya1616

maddinglya1625

frenzilya1688

crazily1814

insanely1828

dementedly1844

off1866

hippomaniacally1876

pathologically1925

manically1927

dottily1937

feyly1959

kookily1968

nutso1980

c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) 964 Hwi motestu so medliche [c1225 Bodl. meadliche, a1250 Titus madliche]?

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 175 Hwich se eauer þe lust beo. se hit meadluker [a1250 Titus meaðluker, c1390 Vernon madloker] is. wrinneð aȝein festluker.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 14608 (MED) Als witles men madli þai lete.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxiv. 4 I sayde vnto the madde people: deale not so madly.

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 22 Amang thay myrk Montanis sa madlie thay mer.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 171 The iewce of it, on sleeping eyeliddes laide, Will make or man or woman madly dote.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 115 Or is your bloud So madly hott, that [etc.] ?

1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 9 The men, though madly, use it [sc. horsehair] in tying up their hair.

a1717 T. Parnell Elegy to Old Beauty 33 And all that's madly wild, or oddly gay, We call it only pretty Fanny's way.

1778 F. Burney Let. 6 July in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III Half the flattery I have had, would have made me madly merry.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. ix. 463 The help of that single power he had madly rejected.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §5. 139 The young King drew his sword, and rushed madly on the Justiciary.

1909 R. E. Knowles Attic Guest xiii. 178 ‘Then you can take what you deserve..,’ I heard the Colonel retort madly.

1946 R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories 156 The stage rocked madly on its trestles.

1969 Rolling Stone 17 May 8/4 While Keith bashes madly on the drums,..Pete Townsend disposes of his axe with good natured dispatch.

1990 N. Bissoondath ‘Smoke’ in Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows (1991) The value of the house rose almost madly.

2. colloquial.

a. Passionately, fervently (cf. quot. 1600 at sense 1). Frequently in madly in love.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adverb]

rageously1486

violently1518

franticly1549

ragingly1549

wildly1593

turbulently1602

impotently1621

transportedly1652

like wild1674

frantically1749

madly1756

seethingly1887

like crazy1924

1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) vii. 187 They are all madly keen to dance too.

1767 J. Boswell Let. 30 Mar. (1924) I. 108 I was so madly in love as to think of marrying her.

1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. 13 My lieutenant..is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory.

1880 O. C. Stone Few Months New Guinea iv. 55 The natives..seem madly fond of kuku [sc. tobacco], and would pawn their very clothes for it if they wore any.

1888 W. S. Gilbert Trial by Jury 12 I love him—I love him—with fervour increasing, I worship and madly adore.

1924 A. Christie Man in Brown Suit ii. 19 I could never marry a man unless I loved him madly.

1959 Guardian 23 Dec. 4/5 Parents play whist and ‘beetle’ madly throughout the winter.

1974 M. Cecil Heroines in Love v. 151 Upper-class heroines..were never ‘in love’, always ‘madly in love’.

1984 B. Reid So Much Love iii. 25 I fell madly in love with him.

b. In weakened use modifying an adjective: extremely, very, ‘awfully’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly

swithlyc888

micklelyeOE

swith971

hardOE

un-i-fohOE

sevenfoldlOE

unmeet?c1225

innerlyc1330

horribly1340

too1340

sore1474

horriblec1475

vehemently1483

outrageous1487

done?a1513

exquisite1529

strangely1532

exceeding1535

exceedingly1535

angardlyc1540

angerlyc1540

choicec1540

vengeable1542

vengeably?1550

extremelya1554

monstrous1569

thrice1579

amain1587

extremea1591

damnably1598

fellc1600

tyrannically1602

exquisitely1603

damnedly1607

preciously1607

damnablea1616

impensively1620

excellingly1621

main1632

fearful1634

vengeancelya1640

upsy1650

impensely1657

twadding1657

vastly1664

hideous1667

mainly1670

consumed1707

consumedly1707

outrageously1749

damned1757

nation1771

shockingly1777

deuced1779

darn1789

darned1807

felly1807

varsal1814

awful1816

awfy1816

frightfully1816

deucedly1819

dogged1819

awfully1820

gallowsa1823

shocking1831

tremendously1832

everlasting1833

terribly1833

fearfully1835

ripping1838

poison1840

thundering1853

frighteninglyc1854

raring1854

hell's own1863

goldarned1866

goddamned1870

doggone1871

acutely1872

whooping1874

stupidly1878

everlastingly1879

hideously1882

densely1883

storming1883

good and1885

thunderingly1885

crazy1887

tremendous1887

madly1888

goldarn1892

howling1895

murderously1916

rasted1919

goddam1921

bitchingly1923

Christly1923

bitching1929

falling-down1930

lousy1932

appallingly1937

stratospherically1941

Christ almighty1945

effing1945

focking1956

dagnab1961

drop-dead1980

hella1987

totes2006

1888 H. James Reverberator II. i. 16 I was not madly impatient to see you married.

1902 G. Bell Lett. (1927) I. vii. 130 It is a madly interesting place.

1935 N. Marsh Enter Murderer ii. 31 She's madly keen on criminology.

1945 N. Mitford Pursuit of Love ix. 73 It's madly wearing to the optic nerve centres.

1954 J. B. Priestley Magicians i. 20 Mavis..brightened up like a touched-off firework and was at once, in her own phrase, ‘madly gay’.

1974 Radio Times 3 Jan. 5/4 Mr Williams's facial mobility is madly impressive.

1986 Z. Tomin Stalin's Shoe iii. 62 I've grown into a desirable, or as they said, madly attractive young woman.

Compounds

Modifying a participial adjective.

† madly used adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 308 The madly vs'd Maluolio.

† madly wrested adj. Obsolete rare

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [adjective]

corruptc1386

racked1546

detorted?1550

wrested1551

writhen1551

writhed1562

forced1583

tortured1603

strained1609

distorted1641

violented1641

crook1647

extorted1652

refracted1655

madly wrested1656

wry1663

corrupted1699

non-natural1844

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxviii. 46 The madly wrested Reason of State which was now practised by many.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	madly
释义	† madlyadj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mad adj., -ly suffix¹. Etymology: < mad adj. + -ly suffix¹. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (mæ·dli) /ˈmædlɪ/. Obsolete. Characteristic of a mad person.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [adjective] > characteristic of brainsick1571 maddish1573 lunatic1608 madly1816 nuttish1923 1816 Ld. Byron Parisina xviii, in Siege of Corinth 86 It was a woman's shriek—and ne'er In madlier accents rose despair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online September 2019). madlyadv. Brit. /ˈmadli/, U.S. /ˈmædli/ Forms: early Middle English madliche, early Middle English madloker (comparative), early Middle English meadliche, early Middle English meadluker (comparative), early Middle English meaðluker (comparative), early Middle English medliche, late Middle English madli, late Middle English–1500s madlie, late Middle English– madly. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mad adj., -ly suffix². Etymology: < mad adj. + -ly suffix². Compare mad adv. 1. In a mad, wild, insane, or foolish manner. (In modern use often somewhat colloquial) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adverb] > madly woodlyc1000 madlyc1225 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's wit1470–85 bedlamlya1569 bedlamlike1576 distractedly1608 madling1608 monthly1611 brainsicklya1616 maddinglya1625 frenzilya1688 crazily1814 insanely1828 dementedly1844 off1866 hippomaniacally1876 pathologically1925 manically1927 dottily1937 feyly1959 kookily1968 nutso1980 c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) 964 Hwi motestu so medliche [c1225 Bodl. meadliche, a1250 Titus madliche]? ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 175 Hwich se eauer þe lust beo. se hit meadluker [a1250 Titus meaðluker, c1390 Vernon madloker] is. wrinneð aȝein festluker. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 14608 (MED) Als witles men madli þai lete. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxiv. 4 I sayde vnto the madde people: deale not so madly. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 22 Amang thay myrk Montanis sa madlie thay mer. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 171 The iewce of it, on sleeping eyeliddes laide, Will make or man or woman madly dote. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 115 Or is your bloud So madly hott, that [etc.] ? View more context for this quotation 1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 9 The men, though madly, use it [sc. horsehair] in tying up their hair. a1717 T. Parnell Elegy to Old Beauty 33 And all that's madly wild, or oddly gay, We call it only pretty Fanny's way. 1778 F. Burney Let. 6 July in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III Half the flattery I have had, would have made me madly merry. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. ix. 463 The help of that single power he had madly rejected. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §5. 139 The young King drew his sword, and rushed madly on the Justiciary. 1909 R. E. Knowles Attic Guest xiii. 178 ‘Then you can take what you deserve..,’ I heard the Colonel retort madly. 1946 R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories 156 The stage rocked madly on its trestles. 1969 Rolling Stone 17 May 8/4 While Keith bashes madly on the drums,..Pete Townsend disposes of his axe with good natured dispatch. 1990 N. Bissoondath ‘Smoke’ in Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows (1991) The value of the house rose almost madly. 2. colloquial. a. Passionately, fervently (cf. quot. 1600 at sense 1). Frequently in madly in love. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adverb] rageously1486 violently1518 franticly1549 ragingly1549 wildly1593 turbulently1602 impotently1621 transportedly1652 like wild1674 frantically1749 madly1756 seethingly1887 like crazy1924 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) vii. 187 They are all madly keen to dance too. 1767 J. Boswell Let. 30 Mar. (1924) I. 108 I was so madly in love as to think of marrying her. 1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. 13 My lieutenant..is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory. 1880 O. C. Stone Few Months New Guinea iv. 55 The natives..seem madly fond of kuku [sc. tobacco], and would pawn their very clothes for it if they wore any. 1888 W. S. Gilbert Trial by Jury 12 I love him—I love him—with fervour increasing, I worship and madly adore. 1924 A. Christie Man in Brown Suit ii. 19 I could never marry a man unless I loved him madly. 1959 Guardian 23 Dec. 4/5 Parents play whist and ‘beetle’ madly throughout the winter. 1974 M. Cecil Heroines in Love v. 151 Upper-class heroines..were never ‘in love’, always ‘madly in love’. 1984 B. Reid So Much Love iii. 25 I fell madly in love with him. b. In weakened use modifying an adjective: extremely, very, ‘awfully’. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 1888 H. James Reverberator II. i. 16 I was not madly impatient to see you married. 1902 G. Bell Lett. (1927) I. vii. 130 It is a madly interesting place. 1935 N. Marsh Enter Murderer ii. 31 She's madly keen on criminology. 1945 N. Mitford Pursuit of Love ix. 73 It's madly wearing to the optic nerve centres. 1954 J. B. Priestley Magicians i. 20 Mavis..brightened up like a touched-off firework and was at once, in her own phrase, ‘madly gay’. 1974 Radio Times 3 Jan. 5/4 Mr Williams's facial mobility is madly impressive. 1986 Z. Tomin Stalin's Shoe iii. 62 I've grown into a desirable, or as they said, madly attractive young woman. Compounds Modifying a participial adjective. † madly used adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 308 The madly vs'd Maluolio. View more context for this quotation † madly wrested adj. Obsolete rare ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [adjective] corruptc1386 racked1546 detorted?1550 wrested1551 writhen1551 writhed1562 forced1583 tortured1603 strained1609 distorted1641 violented1641 crook1647 extorted1652 refracted1655 madly wrested1656 wry1663 corrupted1699 non-natural1844 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxviii. 46 The madly wrested Reason of State which was now practised by many. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1816adv.c1225
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† madlyadj.

madlyadv.

Compounds