'Rabid' definitions:
Definition of 'rabid'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or infected by rabies
adjective
Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn: fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid]
Definition of 'Rabid'
From: GCIDE
- Rabid \Rab"id\ (r[a^]b"[i^]d), a. [L. rabidus, from rabere to rave. See Rage, n.]
- 1. Furious; raging; extremely violent. [1913 Webster]
- The rabid flight Of winds that ruin ships. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rabid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- amok,
- bacchic,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- bigoted,
- carried away,
- corybantic,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- delirious,
- demented,
- demoniac,
- deranged,
- desperate,
- Dionysiac,
- distracted,
- ecstatic,
- enraged,
- enraptured,
- enthusiastic,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- extremist,
- fanatic,
- fanatical,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting mad,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- fulminating,
- fuming,
- furious,
- haggard,
- hog-wild,
- hopping mad,
- howling,
- hydrophobic,
- hysterical,
- in a rage,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- infuriate,
- infuriated,
- inordinate,
- insane,
- intoxicated,
- irrational,
- keen,
- like one possessed,
- mad,
- madding,
- maenadic,
- maniac,
- maniacal,
- obsessed,
- orgasmic,
- orgiastic,
- overenthusiastic,
- overreligious,
- overzealous,
- perfervid,
- possessed,
- radical,
- raging,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- raving,
- raving mad,
- ravished,
- revolutional,
- revolutionary,
- revolutionist,
- roaring,
- roaring mad,
- running mad,
- running wild,
- savage,
- stark-raving mad,
- storming,
- transported,
- ultra,
- ultraist,
- ultrazealous,
- uncontrollable,
- unreasonable,
- unreasoning,
- violent,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- zealotic,
- zealous