States and conditions
Synonyms for mad
Synonyms for mad: crazy, sore and delirious. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for mad
Interchangeable with mad, one per sense
Audited under mad's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one mad carries in that sense.
- crazyadjective, in the sense "affected with madness or insanity"
- soreadjective, in the sense "roused to anger"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name mad as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- deliriousdelirious is an adjective in the sense "marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under mad and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
affected with madness or insanity
A man who had gone mad.
mad in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The old woman on the corner mumbled to herself, and neighbors whispered that grief had made her mad.
- After years alone in the lighthouse, the keeper grew mad and began talking to the empty sea.
How it behaves: In this sense mad usually appears predicatively after go or drive someone, as in go mad or drive her mad, and belongs to a literary or slightly dated register rather than clinical speech.
The true synonym
crazy
Same sentence, swapped: A man who had gone crazy.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- sore
- delirious
- angry
The opposite, in this sense
sane reverses mad as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of mad takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- sane
roused to anger
She gets mad when you wake her up so early.
The true synonym
sore
Same sentence, swapped: She gets sore when you wake her up so early.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot mad is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- sick
- excited
- strange
Where mad turns up in the game
mad is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where mad is the trap
- sickadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is disgusted, in the sense "having a strong distaste from surfeit", and mad is one of the three tiles that lose.
- sillyadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is slaphappy, in the sense "dazed from or as if from repeated blows", so mad is there to be ruled out.
Play mad
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mad reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. mad carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.