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madwoman

madwoman noun: a woman who is insane or mentally disturbed.

Noun

madwoman (plural madwomen)

  1. A woman who is insane or mentally disturbed.
    • but there seemed to be no reality in the whole scene except poor little Miss Flite, the madwoman, standing on a bench and nodding at it.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
    • A madwoman with cropped hair and staring eyes stumbled into the column just ahead of our party, shouted words no one could understand, and fled among the trees.1983, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun; 4), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 232

madwoman meaning in Marathi, Telugu and Kannada

madwoman in Marathi

madwoman, lunatic, maniac
वेडी veḍī

madwoman in Telugu

a woman who is insane
వెర్రిది verridi

madwoman in Kannada

madwoman, maniac, lunatic
ಹುಚ್ಚಿ hucci

Forms of madwoman

pluralmadwomen

Plural of madwoman: madwomen

Origin of madwoman

From mad + -woman.

Questions about madwoman

What does madwoman mean?
Madwoman means a woman who is insane or mentally disturbed.
What is madwoman in Marathi?
Madwoman in Marathi is वेडी (veḍī). See Madwoman meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is madwoman?
Madwoman is a noun.
What is the plural of madwoman?
The plural of madwoman is madwomen.

Words near madwoman in the dictionary

  1. maduropeptin
  2. maduros
  3. madurose
  4. madware
  5. madweed
  6. madwoman
  7. madwomen
  8. madwomyn
  9. madwort
  10. madworts
  11. Madyson

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: madwoman (page history and authors); वेडी (Marathi) (page history and authors); ಹುಚ್ಚಿ (Kannada) (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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