1 (only used after a verb) in a way that shows a lack of control:
She was rushing around madly trying to put out the fire. * His heart thudded madly against his ribs. * He saw the weathervane spinning madly in the powerful breeze.
2 (informal) very, extremely:
madly excited / jealous * She's madly in love with him.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for madly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is madly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, madly is tagged as adverb.
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