madly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈmædli/

Definition of madly

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a mad manner
    “I'm madly in love with you.”
    “But his cries were heard, as he madly grappled with the knives which stabbed him.”
    “If Austria had not madly invaded Piedmont in 1859, France could not have fought. If, the Pope had not been madly obstinate in rejecting the reforms pressed on him by France, he must have been sustained as a temporal ruler.”
    “It is the fact that, for the time, he is bereft of his senses; he is a man who has gone mad. He spends his money madly, he treats his friends madly, he treats himself madly. Those who would love him best if he were not mad are now afraid of him, and often hide themselves from him, and well they may. For this man, in his madness, may hurt them, strike them, kill them.”
    “Consider, for the love of Heaven, to what you run madly: will you take this viper into your bed?”
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adv

  1. In a mad manner
    “I'm madly in love with you.”
    “But his cries were heard, as he madly grappled with the knives which stabbed him.”
    “If Austria had not madly invaded Piedmont in 1859, France could not have fought. If, the Pope had not been madly obstinate in rejecting the reforms pressed on him by France, he must have been sustained as a temporal ruler.”
    “It is the fact that, for the time, he is bereft of his senses; he is a man who has gone mad. He spends his money madly, he treats his friends madly, he treats himself madly. Those who would love him best if he were not mad are now afraid of him, and often hide themselves from him, and well they may. For this man, in his madness, may hurt them, strike them, kill them.”
    “Consider, for the love of Heaven, to what you run madly: will you take this viper into your bed?”
  2. In a mad manner
    “Diane screamed madly down the phone to the prank caller.”
  3. In a mad manner
    “In a way the better procedures you have I think, bizarrely and madly it actually serves to increase rather than decrease the problem”

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Etymology

From Middle English madly, madli, medliche, equivalent to mad + -ly.

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