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rabid

[ rab-id ]

adjective

  1. irrationally extreme in opinion or practice:

    a rabid isolationist;

    a rabid baseball fan.

    Synonyms: bigoted, fanatical, ardent, fervent, zealous

  2. furious or raging; violently intense:

    a rabid hunger.

  3. affected with or pertaining to rabies; mad.


rabid

/ ˈreɪ-; ˈræbɪd; rəˈbɪdɪtɪ /

adjective

  1. relating to or having rabies
  2. zealous; fanatical; violent; raging
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • rabidity, noun
  • ˈrabidly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • rab·id·i·ty [r, uh, -, bid, -i-tee, ra-], rabid·ness noun
  • rabid·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rabid1

First recorded in 1605–15; from Latin rabidus “raving, furious, mad,” from rab(ere) “to rave, be mad” + -idus -id 4
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rabid1

C17: from Latin rabidus frenzied, mad, from rabere to be mad
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Example Sentences

Another 30,876 other rabid animals also were infected with the raccoon variant.

My colleague, Samantha Stark, the director of the documentary, didn’t know much about Britney when we started the project, but she was really attracted to why Britney has such a rabid fan base.

This is all to say, so happy for you, the people who are rabid and ready to be unleashed back into the world.

The most striking takeaway from the Keeping Up with the Kardashians series finale is just how effective the titular family’s rabid, wholly transparent pursuit of fame really was.

The American owners must be wondering where they went wrong, especially as closed sports models back home reap billions but also attract rabid fan bases.

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As soon as I broke the line, the kids whom I had been standing next to turned rabid on me.

This method works for TB, for cholera, for rabid animals—for just about everything.

Which is why his efforts to justify his rabid consumption of football wind up feeling so slippery and convoluted.

But once EV-68 fizzles out, surely something new will fill its place in the rabid 24-hour all-crisis-all-the-time news cycle.

Given the hoops mania, though, the gym is the largest in the state, capable of holding 3,000-plus rabid fans.

They are not the figures of any rabid Socialist making frenzied guesses.

On one occasion much alarm was occasioned by one of them becoming rabid, rushing violently at and biting animals and people.

Rabid diatribes appeared in "The Light," and incessant scenes took place at the municipal sessions.

Georges Clemenceau has been a rabid foe to Religion and to the Church from the very beginning of his political career.

He saw standing in front of the schoolhouse four men, and they were the worst and most rabid Tories in the settlement.

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