1 [usuallybeforenoun] (disapproving) (of a type of person) having very strong feelings about sth and acting in an unacceptable way:
rabid right-wing fanatics * the rabid tabloid press
2 [usuallybeforenoun] (disapproving) (of feelings or opinions) violent or extreme:
rabid speculation
3 suffering from rabies:
a rabid dog
rabidly adverb:
She is as rabidly anti-smoking as only a recently cured addict can be.
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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 rabid is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rabid a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rabid is tagged as adjective.
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