Madness and Trouble

Madness

Madness noun - A serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life.

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Trouble and madness are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trouble" instead a noun "Madness".

Nearby Word: mad

Trouble noun - An abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning.

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Madness and trouble are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Madness" instead a noun "Trouble".

short	short madness	short trouble
complete	complete madness	complete trouble
actual	actual madness	actual trouble
constant	constant madness	constant trouble
Other adjectives: extreme, slight, horrible, permanent, mental, general, apparent, further, extra, greater, impending.

Several more (Boreas, Eurus, Chinook, Favonius, and Notos) cause a great deal of trouble in The Book of Sorrows, their machinations partially responsible for Chauntecleer's descent into madness.

Source: Literature / The Book of the Dun Cow
Since all the bad things his family does, or almost all, are directly related to hereditary madness, he has to try to keep them out of trouble even as "Yellow Fever victims" start piling up in the basement, buried there by his blatantly insane older brother Teddy.

Source: Theatre / Arsenic and Old Lace
If an Igor is working for a mechanical genius who isn't in the Madness Place (such as Hubert Turvy in Making Money, who is constantly fretting about how the Glooper might cause people trouble) they tend to get a bit disconcerted, because there's something weird about people like that.

Source: The Madness Place

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