adv
Meaning 1
In a mad manner
without reason or understanding; wildly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I'm madly in love with you.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
madly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈmædli/
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rhymes with -ædli
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CMU ARPABET: M AE1 D L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
In a mad manner
angrily
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Diane screamed madly down the phone to the prank caller.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
In a mad manner
extremely surprisingly or unexpectedly
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 4
(used as intensives) extremely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she was madly in love
- deadly dull
- deadly earnest
- deucedly clever
- insanely jealous
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 5
in an insane manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she behaved insanely
- he behaves crazily when he is off his medication
- the witch cackled madly
- screaming dementedly
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: insanely, crazily, dementedly
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 6
in an uncontrolled manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she fought back madly
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: frantically
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English madly, madli, medliche, equivalent to mad + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: bojament — in a mad manner
- Esperanto: freneze — in a mad manner
- Finnish: mielettömästi — in a mad manner
- Finnish: mielipuolisesti — in a mad manner
- Finnish: hullun lailla — in a mad manner
- French: follement — in a mad manner
- German: wie verrückt — in a mad manner
- Hungarian: őrülten — in a mad manner
- Italian: follemente — in a mad manner
- Middle English: madli — in a mad manner
- Portuguese: loucamente — in a mad manner
- Spanish: alocadamente — in a mad manner
- Turkish: çılgınca — in a mad manner
- Turkish: delice — in a mad manner