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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Feeling or showing anger: angry, choleric, indignant. Informal : sore. Idioms: hot under the collar. See FEELINGS. 2. Showing or having enthusiasm: ardent, enthusiastic, fervent, keen1, rabid, warm, zealous. Informal : crazy. Slang : gung ho, nuts. See CONCERN. 3. So senseless as to be laughable: absurd, foolish, harebrained, idiotic, imbecilic, insane, lunatic, moronic, nonsensical, preposterous, silly, softheaded, tomfool, unearthly, zany. Informal : cockeyed, crazy, loony, loopy. Slang : balmy2, dippy, dopey, jerky, sappy, wacky. See ABILITY, KNOWLEDGE. 4. Marked by extreme excitement, confusion, or agitation: delirious, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, wild. Archaic : madding. See CALM. 5. Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. Informal : bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony. Slang : bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. Chiefly British : crackers. Law : non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off (or out of) one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See SANE.
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