Overcome with anger, madness, or distress; insane, mentally disturbed.

Of a dog or other beast: Rabid: = mad, adj. 6.

Mad, frantic, furious.

Not having control of one's mental faculties; demented, out of one's wits; distracted; hence in weakened sense, Extremely foolish or unreasonable…

Affected with mental disease; ‘lunatic’, insane; (in later use) violently or ragingly mad. Now rare.

Of a person: fierce, frenzied, uncontrollable; excited, unruly. Scottish after 16th cent. Now rare.

raving mad, wildly insane (cf. walling, adj.1 1).

With reference to mental disturbance or insanity: exhibiting or characterized by staring eyes (see sense A. 3); frantic, wild. In later use also as…

Of a person: mad, crazy; frantic; rash, headstrong.

= rabid, adj.

= horn-mad, adj.

Frantic, crazy; wild, headstrong; rough, violent.

past participle. Maddened (with anger, love, pain, etc.); inspired with poetic frenzy. Also, affected with rabies.

= frenzical, adj.

= woodly, adj.

Apparently originally of horned beasts: Enraged so as to be ready to horn any one. Hence of persons: Stark mad; mad with rage; furious. Cf. earlier…

Mad, furious.

Affected with, characterized by, or of the nature of frenzy; crazy, mad; wildly enthusiastic.

Mad, frantic, frenzied. Obsolete. rare.

Furious, raging; wildly aggressive or violent. Also in extended use.

Mad, raging, rabid. Obsolete.

Mad, rabid; = ravening, adj. 2. Also as adv. as intensifier. Obsolete. rare.

Of the nature of, or characteristic of, a Pythian priestess; oracular; rapturous, frenetic. Also as n.

Deviating from the normal, prescribed, or customary track. Of an insane person or his condition: Extravagant, frantic, wild. Obsolete.

(< the noun), affected with frenzy.

extremely wild.

Affected with or characterized by frenzy; crazy, mad; distracted, frantic; wildly enthusiastic.

Characteristic of or resembling a Maenad; frenzied.

A wild Norse warrior of great strength and ferocious courage, who fought on the battle-field with a frenzied fury known as the ‘berserker rage’…

up the wall: angry, furious; distraught, mad, crazy; esp. in phrases to climb up the wall, run up the wall: to become very angry or distraught; to d…

In figurative contexts. Out of control, haywire, berserk. Chiefly in to go ballistic slang (originally U.S.): to become wildly or explosively angry…