Madly

Definitions: Madly

Madly

Adverb

1. In a desperate manner; "she fought back madly".

2. In an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly".

3. (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous".

Date "madly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Madly \Mad"ly\, adverb. [From Mad,]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Madly

Synonyms: crazily (adv), deadly (adv), dementedly (adv), deucedly (adv), devilishly (adv), insanely (adv). (additional references)

Antonym: sanely (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Madly

English words defined with "madly": deadly, deucedly, devilishly ♦ insanely ♦ Woodly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "madly": Cloridano ♦ Heart's Ease. (references)

Etymologies containing "madly": Woodly. (references)

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Modern Usage: Madly

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Because you're completely obsessively madly in love with her. (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)
Lyrics	Truly, madly, deeply do ("Truly Madly Deeply"; performing artist: Savage Garden)
Movie/TV Titles	Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly (1973) Madly in Love (1972)
Song Titles	Love her Madly (performing artist: The Doors) Truly Madly Deeply (performing artist: Savage Garden)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Madly

Domain	Title
Books	Love Her Madly : A Novel (reference) Loving Madly, Loving Sanely: How to Keep Your Brain from Ruining Your Love Life (reference) Madly singing in the mountains: an appreciation and anthology of Arthur Waley (reference) Truly Madly Deeply (reference) Truly, Madly Manhattan: Local Hero & Dual Image (2 novels in 1) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Truly, Madly, Deeply (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Truly Madly Deeply / I'll Bet He Was Cool [CD-SINGLE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Madly

Title	Author	Quote
Three Voices	Carroll, Lewis	She felt that her defeat was plain, Yet madly strove with might and main To get the upper hand again.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Help! He flung the blankets from him madly to free his face and neck.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And the children broke from restraint, dashed on the floor, chased one another madly, ran, slid, stole caps, and pulled hair.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Madly

"Madly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Madly" is used about 190 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	94.74%	180	23,046
Noun (proper)	5.26%	10	111,207
Total	100.00%	190	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Madly

Expressions using "madly": be madly in love ♦ be madly in love with smb. ♦ fall madly in love ♦ madly in love. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Madly

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
madly	14
in love madly	6
cake love lyrics madly	5
anger in madly	5
door her love lyrics madly	5
love lyrics madly	4
her love lyrics madly	4
her love madly	4
love you madly	4
anger i in m madly	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Madly

Language		Translations for "madly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏بجنون. (various references)

Chinese		發狂 (crazy, mad), 疯狂地. (various references)

Czech		být bláznivì zamilován (be madly in love). (various references)

French		frénétiquement, follement. (various references)

German		verrückt (Batty, crack-brained, crazily, crazy, daft, daisy, demented, dementedly, insane, insanely, kinky, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mentally unbalanced, mind-boggling, nuts, potty, psycho, raving, scatty, screwy, unbalanced, wackily, wacky, whimsical, wild, zany), irr (Iranian rial). (various references)

Hungarian		bomlik vkiért (to be madly in love with sy, to be passionately fond of sy). (various references)

Indonesian		sangat mabuk. (various references)

Italian		pazzamente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		猛進 (rushing madly ahead), 参る (to be annoyed, to be defeated, to be madly in love, to be nonplussed, to call, to collapse, to come, to die, to go, to visit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		まいる (to be annoyed, to be defeated, to be madly in love, to be nonplussed, to call, to collapse, to come, to die, to go, to visit), もうし�" (blind acceptance, blind belief, credulity, presumption, rushing madly ahead, rushing recklessly). (various references)

Korean		미치게. (various references)

Pig Latin		adlymay.(various references)

Portuguese		loucamente, contrário � lei seca (wet). (various references)

Russian		безумно (like fury). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ludo (senselessly), besno (amok, amuck). (various references)

Spanish		locamente (amuckly, daftly). (various references)

Swedish		tokigt. (various references)

Turkish		delice (buggy, bughouse, crazily, insane, insensate, maniacally, splitting), deli gibi (like a man possessed, like blazes, like mad). (various references)

Ukranian		шалено (amok, amuck, deliriously, headlong, outrageously, toughly), нерозсудливо (blindfold, blindly, unadvisedly), безумно (deliriously). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Madly

Misspellings
	"Madly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dadly, fadly, hadly, ladly, Mably, maday, maddy, Madely, madey, Madl, mady, maely, Magdy, mahlim, Malby, Malcy, mald, maldy, maley, mally, Maly, Malyn, Mandl, matily, mauly, Mawley, medlo, medy, meldy, middly, midlay, mlady, nadly, padly, radly, tadly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Madly"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "madly" (pronounced ma"dlē)
4	-a" d l ē	badly, gladly, sadly.
3	-d l ē	absurdly, acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, awkwardly, baldly, belatedly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, candidly, coldly, contentedly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, Diddley, doggedly, downwardly, evenhandedly, excitedly, fondly, friendly, godly, goodly, grandly, guardedly, haphazardly, hardly, heatedly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, kindly, loudly, markedly, medley, mildly, niggardly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, placidly, pointedly, profoundly, proudly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, Ridley, rigidly, roundly, rudely, ruggedly, secondly, shrewdly, solidly, soundly, splendidly, straightforwardly, stupidly, supposedly, thirdly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unfriendly, ungodly, unprecedentedly, upwardly, validly, vividly, weirdly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, widely, wildly, worldly, wretchedly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Madly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-l-m-y"
	-1 letter: amyl, lady, yald.
	-2 letters: dal, dam, day, lad, lam, lay, mad, may, yam.
	-3 letters: ad, al, am, ay, la, ma, my, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-l-m-y"
	+1 letter: damply, malady, milady.
	+2 letters: amyloid, mazedly, modally.
	+3 letters: amazedly, amusedly, amygdala, amygdale, amygdule, amyloids, damnably, dismally, dreamily, ladypalm, lampyrid, maidenly, manyfold, markedly, massedly, mattedly, medially, medianly, modality, olympiad, psalmody, randomly.
	+4 letters: adamantly, admirably, admiralty, amplidyne, amygdalae, amygdales, amygdalin, amygdules, ashamedly, chlamydes, chlamydia, comradely, condyloma, damningly, damselfly, decimally, diplomacy, dynamical, ladypalms, lampyrids, mediately, medically, medullary, misplayed, modularly, molybdate, mordantly, mundanely, nymphalid, olympiads, polyamide, pyramidal, sympodial.
	+5 letters: acrylamide, admiringly, admittedly, amplidynes, amygdalins, amygdaloid, animatedly, bimodality, chlamydiae, chlamydial, condylomas, damagingly, dominantly, dreamfully, epididymal, formidably, gladsomely, handsomely, hypodermal, lamentedly, laundryman, laundrymen, lumberyard, manifoldly, measuredly, medievally, methylated, methyldopa, moderately, modularity, modulatory, molybdates, myelinated, myocardial, nymphalids, polyamides, remedially.
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