MADMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does madman mean? 

• MADMAN (noun)
  The noun MADMAN has 1 sense:

1. an insane person

  Familiarity information: MADMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MADMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An insane person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lunatic; madman; maniac

Hypernyms ("madman" is a kind of...):

diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "madman"):

crazy; looney; loony; nutcase; weirdo (someone deranged and possibly dangerous)

bedlamite (an archaic term for a lunatic)

pyromaniac (a person with a mania for setting things on fire)

madwoman (a woman lunatic)

 Context examples 

Thus I might proclaim myself a madman, but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched victim.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Nay; he is even more prisoner than the slave of the galley, than the madman in his cell.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was his life or mine, but far more than that, it was his life or hers, for how could I leave her in the power of this madman?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“That is too bad!” cried he, and sprang up like a madman, and pushed his companion against the tree until it shook.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He would listen to no argument, but dashed out of the room like a madman.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But you'll need to hold your gun straight in South America, for, unless our friend the Professor is a madman or a liar, we may see some queer things before we get back.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no clearness or sanity in them—nothing but the terrific rage of a madman.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If I could have seen him then I should have killed him, for I have always been like a madman when my temper gets loose.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There never was such another drunken madman in that line of business, I hope.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)