Mad and Paranoid

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Mad adjective - Having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind.

Usage example: the man who thinks he's been turned into a bug is clearly mad

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Paranoid and mad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Paranoid" instead the word "Mad" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: madness, madly

Paranoid adjective - Suffering from paranoia.

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Mad and paranoid are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mad" instead the word "Paranoid" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: paranoia, paranoiac

Dr Mann in Interstellar became so increasingly paranoid and mad during their time spent alone without any human contact and due to his planet being inhabitable, he knew that Earth wouldn't send anyone so he faked a signal and tried to kill Cooper and co to steal the Endurance.

Source: Go Mad from the Isolation
In Narbonic, after Dave goes mad, Helen tells him that the nice part of going mad is that "You realize you weren't paranoid after all."

Source: Properly Paranoid
The number of satirists has led him to become ever more paranoid and ban-happy... the result being that only the parodists remain◊, driving him ever-deeper into his mad spiral of paranoid banning.

Source: Poe's Law

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