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Definition of rabid :
1. Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox.
2. Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist.
3. Furious; raging; extremely violent.
4. Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus.
Synonyms:
convulsive, feelings, fierce, sore, horn-mad, frantic, tempestuous, foaming, anthropoid, asexual, paroxysmal, indignant, fanatical, overzealous, bitten, furious, blood-and-guts, hopping, rough, choleric, extremist, cyclonic, revolutionist, fervent, concern, ireful, passionate, infuriate, livid, tumultuous, caged, ballistic, roiled, infuriated, inflamed, articulate, steaming, hot, warm, sick, irate, incensed, loud, fanatic, delirious, captive, aquatic, turbulent, outraged, steamed up, enthusiastic, ferocious, wild, bang-bang, angered, extreme, teed off, rankled, hammer-and-tongs, fuming, wrathful, edge, politics, wroth, nuts, explosive, obsessed, frenetic, didactic, knock-down, keen, crazy, stormy, androgynous, apoplectic, zealous, riled, virulent, poisoned, amphibious, single-minded, feverish, radical, drag-out, opinionated, riley, spirited, enraged, ultra, revolutionary, cheesed off, shirty, volcanic, arboreal, vocal, ardent, best-of-breed, far-out, ticked, gung ho
violent (part of speech: adjective)
frenzied, raging, violent, mad, deranged
Usage examples:
- It is as plain as a pike- staff that we are a nation of perfectly rabid idealists. - "Walking-Stick Papers", Robert Cortes Holliday.
- This was the plan: recruit rabid fans right away, get 'em in costume, and put 'em up on the scaffolds. - "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", Cory Doctorow.
- This appearance cannot be mistaken either in lucid or rabid intervals; it is still perceptible, although, of course, in a greater or lesser degree. - "Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign", John Ashton.