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madly

/ˈmædli/

madly adverb: without reason or understanding; wildly.

Adverb

madly (comparative madlier or more madly, superlative madliest or most madly)

  1. without reason or understanding; wildly.
    • I'm madly in love with you.
    • But his cries were heard, as he madly grappled with the knives which stabbed him.1854, George Lippard, New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million - Issue 2, E. Mendenhall, page 122
  2. angrily
    • Diane screamed madly down the phone to the prank caller.
  3. extremely surprisingly or unexpectedly
    • In a way the better procedures you have I think, bizarrely and madly it actually serves to increase rather than decrease the problem2016, Lizzie Barmes, Bullying and Behavioural Conflict at Work

madly meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

madly in Tamil

பைத்தியக்காரத்தனமாக

madly in Urdu

بری طرح سے, پاگل پن سے, سختی سے

madly in Malayalam

wildly, insanely, delirious-ly
ഉന്മത്തമായി, ഭ്രന്തുപിടിച്ചതുപോലെ, ഭ്രാന്തമായി, സുബോധമില്ലാതെ, ഉന്മാദത്തോടെ, ബുദ്ധിസ്ഥിരതയില്ലാതെ
hurriedly, fast, furiously
ഭ്രാന്തമായ വേഗത്തിൽ, ശീഘ്രഗതിയിൽ, ത്വരയോടെ, മുറുകെ, ഉഗ്രമായി, തിക്കനെ
fervently, intensely, wildly
ഭ്രാന്തമായി, തീവ്രമായി, തീക്ഷ്ണമായി, പ്രചണ്ഡമായി, ആവേശത്തോടെ, വികാരതീക്ഷ്ണമായി
extremely, very, really
അതിയായി, ധാരാളമായി, വളരെ, അങ്ങേഅറ്റം, അത്യന്തം, അസാമാന്യമാംവിധം

Examples of madly in a sentence

  • If Austria had not madly invaded Piedmont in 1859, France could not have fought.1861, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, The Rebellion, Its Latent Causes and True Significance: In ..., J.G. Gregory, page 23:
  • He spends his money madly, he treats his friends madly, he treats himself madly.1878, Benjamin Ward Richardson, The Temperance Lesson Book: A Series of Short Lessons on Alcohol and Its Action on the Body. Designed for...
  • Consider, for the love of Heaven, to what you run madly: will you take this viper into your bed?1879, Francis Beaumont, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions, Volume 1, D....

All 24 example sentences with madly

Forms of madly

comparativemadlier
comparativemore madly
superlativemadliest
superlativemost madly

Origin of madly

From Middle English madly, madli, medliche, equivalent to mad + -ly.

Words that rhyme with madly

Questions about madly

What does madly mean?
Madly means without reason or understanding; wildly.
What is madly in Tamil?
Madly in Tamil is பைத்தியக்காரத்தனமாக. See Madly meaning in Tamil.
How do you use madly in a sentence?
If Austria had not madly invaded Piedmont in 1859, France could not have fought.
What part of speech is madly?
Madly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce madly?
Madly is pronounced /ˈmædli/.

Words near madly in the dictionary

  1. madliest
  2. madling
  3. madlings
  4. Madlock
  5. Madlocks
  6. madly
  7. madman
  8. madman theory
  9. madmen
  10. madnep
  11. madneps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: madly (page history and authors); madly (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); madly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); madly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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