| 单词 | madness |
| 释义 | madness (once / 366 pages) 1n 2n 3n Madness is foolish, impulsive behavior. It would be madness to ride on the back of your friend's car, standing on the bumper. A screaming crowd waiting to see their favorite rock star creates an atmosphere of madness — and their enthusiasm itself can be described as madness. You could also say that donating all your money to an animal shelter would be madness, or describe the madness of a busy Thanksgiving Day sale. Madness sometimes takes on its original meaning, "mental instability" or "insanity." WORD FAMILYmadness: madnesses+/mad: madded, maddest, madding, madly, madness USAGE EXAMPLESThe intertwining of madness and genius remains an essential part of his posthumous legend, and Lowell himself saw the two as related. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Jack’s goal is to treat the job like a writer’s retreat; instead, he is mysteriously driven to madness and murder. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The next month, starting on 16 February, Clinton will open a much bigger run, the Mardi Gras Madness tour, which will stretch until 4 March. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n the quality of being rash and foolish Syn|Hyper craziness, folly, foolishness stupidity a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience 2n unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm poetry is a sort of divine madness Syn|Hyper rabidity, rabidness ebullience, enthusiasm, exuberance overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval 3n obsolete terms for legal insanity 2Syn|Hyper insaneness, lunacy insanity relatively permanent disorder of the mind n a feeling of intense anger 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper fury, rage wrath intense anger (usually on an epic scale) lividitya state of fury so great the face becomes discolored anger, choler, ire a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance n 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 Syn|Hyper hydrophobia, lyssa, rabies zoonosis, zoonotic disease an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans |
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