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like mad

like mad prepositional phrase: like a mad person; in a furious or deranged manner; to a great or excessive degree; with great enthusiasm.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Like a mad person; in a furious or deranged manner; to a great or excessive degree; with great enthusiasm.
    • We poked a stick into the hornets' nest and ran like mad.
    • They neuer linne to scrape our goodes / till all our wealth be gone. / Which if we chaunce to sée, / excuses then are had: / But so we sée not when ’tis done, / they will denie like mad / They neuer toke away / one iote but was their owne:1567, “The .vj. Egloge”, in George Turberville, transl., The Eglogs of the Poet B. Mantuan Carmelitan, London
    Synonyms:
    like crazy

like mad meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

like mad in Malayalam

fast, quickly, rapidly
ഭ്രാന്തുപിടിച്ചപോലെ, ഭ്രാന്തമായി, സാഹസികമായി, കുറുക്കനേ, ഭ്രാന്തമായവേഗത്തിൽ, വേഗം
energetically, enthusiastically, madly
ഊർജ്ജസാ, ശക്തമായി, ഓജസ്സോടുകൂടി, അത്യുന്മേഷത്തോടുകൂടി, ഊർജ്ജസ്വലമായി, ഉത്സാഹത്തോടെ

like mad in Kannada

ಹುಚ್ಚು ಹಿಡಿದಂತೆ, ಬಹಳ ಹುರುಪಿನಿಂದ, ಅತ್ಯುತ್ಸಾಹಿತನಾಗಿ

Examples of like mad in a sentence

  • And all the manufacturers in the world are ordering Robots like mad.c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City...
  • My eyes blinked like mad but then it was okay.1993, Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Penguin, page 210:

Synonyms of like mad

Questions about like mad

What does like mad mean?
Like mad means like a mad person; in a furious or deranged manner; to a great or excessive degree; with great enthusiasm.
What is like mad in Malayalam?
Like mad in Malayalam is ഭ്രാന്തുപിടിച്ചപോലെ, ഭ്രാന്തമായി, സാഹസികമായി. See Like mad meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use like mad in a sentence?
And all the manufacturers in the world are ordering Robots like mad.
What part of speech is like mad?
Like mad is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like mad in the dictionary

  1. like lightning
  2. like like
  3. like liked
  4. like likes
  5. like liking
  6. like mad
  7. like magic
  8. like merry hell
  9. like molasses
  10. like molasses in January
  11. like mother, like daughter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: like mad (page history and authors); like mad (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); like mad (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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