madden

Push past patience

To madden is to make someone mad—either angry or insane.

The anger sense dominates modern usage: The delays maddened commuters.

Maddening describes things that provoke frustration: a maddening bureaucracy, maddening inconsistency.

The insanity sense survives in literary contexts: maddened by grief.

infuriate

enrage

Make furious

aggravate · provoke · annoy · anger · vex · irk · peeve · antagonize · upset · gall

insanity

derange

Disturb mental order

lunatic · maniacal · psychotic · delusional · irrational · delirium · frenzied · berserk · unbalanced · crazed

frenzy

chaos

Complete disorder and confusion

hysteria · bedlam · commotion · furor · mayhem · riot · tumult · feverish · manic · craze

game

EA Sports

Sports gaming division

touchdown · franchise · roster · playoffs · Super Bowl · draft · controller · Xbox · PlayStation · simulation

Phrases
Family

maddening, maddeningly, maddened, madder, maddest

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G