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stark raving mad

stark raving mad adjective: completely insane.

Adjective

stark raving mad (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Completely insane
    • The British ambassador reported: ‘The day before yesterday, Berlin went stark raving mad. There was a fall of six points in German securities on the Bourse and a genuine impression that war was about to break out between England and Germany.1931, R. B. Mowat, Great Britain and Germany in the Early Twentieth Century, in The English Historical Review, Vol. 46, No. 183

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Questions about stark raving mad

What does stark raving mad mean?
Stark raving mad means completely insane.
What part of speech is stark raving mad?
Stark raving mad is an adjective.

Words near stark raving mad in the dictionary

  1. stark
  2. stark bollock naked
  3. Stark County
  4. Stark effect
  5. stark naked
  6. stark raving mad
  7. stark staring mad
  8. Stark-Einstein law
  9. Stark-Heegner theorem
  10. Starkable
  11. Starke

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