Going beyond all reasonable bounds; utterly senseless; extremely rash or reckless, wild; vehemently excited: = mad, adj. 5.

Angry, furious, wild.

Of a person: carried away by or filled with enthusiasm or desire; wildly excited; infatuated. With about, after, for, †of, on (chiefly British), over…

Of a person, an animal, etc.: Full of fury or fierce passion; mad with anger, zeal, or the like; raging, frantic. Also of actions, attributes…

Of a person or animal: raving in madness or fury, acting violently. Also: (of a natural force, a passion, etc.) violent, intense.

Of movement, noise, demeanour, etc.: wild, uncontrolled, unrestrained; rough, crude.

Of persons, their actions, attributes, etc.: full of rage, passion, or anger; mad.

Of a person: wildly excited; frantic, furious; overenthusiastic; (in religious matters) fanatical. Also figurative. Cf. frantic, adj. 2.

transferred. Affected by wild and ungovernable excitement; ‘mad’ with rage, pain, grief, etc. †Also, in early use, applied as a term of reproach…

Delirious; frenzied; mentally deranged, insane; fanatical.

Not master of oneself; unable to restrain oneself; unrestrained, headlong, passionate. Also with of. Obsolete.

‘Carried away’ by excitement or vehement emotion; excited beyond self-control; enraptured.

Of a person, a person's disposition or support for a cause, etc.: passionate; vehement; characterized by or exhibiting a lack of moderation in…

Characterized by violent disturbance or commotion; violently disturbed or agitated; disorderly, troubled. Of a state of mind or thought, social or…

That drives (a person) mad.

Of persons: Violently excited. Elated, enthusiastic, ‘raving’. Also †const. after.

Of a person, circumstances, etc.: in an emotional state, tangled, involved, confused, crazy. colloquial (originally U.S.).