half-mad
Britishadjective
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not entirely sane
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extremely upset or distracted
half-mad with fear
Example Sentences
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Lawrence while Aunt Ada Doom injects a Gothic touch with her half-mad stare and ravings about “something nasty in the woodshed.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Saul, the first king of Israel, ended his reign in defeat, half-mad and disgraced, replaced by the upstart David.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2023
“Acrophobia,” said my friend Paul, “Fear of heights, and the chance I may fall, Has me going half-mad — Things have gotten so bad, I dislike even being this tall!”
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2021
Twenty-two years in power would do that to anyone, and what we’re witnessing is a classic situation of a half-mad czar.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2021
I’m crying and muttering, half-mad with the pain.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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