RABID • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Rabid

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/rˈæbɪd/ /rˈeɪbɪd/ Listen

Rabid

adjective

Of or infected by rabies.

Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea. Synonyms: fanatic, fanatical, overzealous.

See more definitions of Rabid...

See images of 'Rabid'

Etymology of 'Rabid'

Related searches:

rabidity

rabidness

Share |

"Rabid" Quotes from Famous Books

... never found it was required of me to pose as a rabid loyalist, and so did not, being known as disinterested and indifferent, and perhaps for that reason not suspected. My friends were from necessity among the best among the loyalists—from choice, too, for I liked them for their own ...

— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... said the Greek, sternly. "And, mark me, Giacomo—if you play me false, as you have done others, I will find you out, and finish your worthless life with as little compunction as I would that of a rabid dog." ...

— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston

... With the right hand they pass further laws for the iconoclasts to denounce. A phenomenon results. With the thought of the masses becoming more and more neutral in the highty-tighty war between Good and Evil, the laws created by these same masses grow more and more rabid. But it must be borne in mind that although the masses, carried away by flagellant impulses, assist in the creation of these laws, in the main, they are laws, self-created platitudes which give birth to new platitudes. Logic is the ...

— Nonsenseorship • G. G. Putnam

... at the fight. Seven of us rabid suffragists, two on the fence, and a half roast pig will convert the other. Found no answer to my question in letter ...

— The Tinder-Box • Maria Thompson Daviess

... phrenitis is as violent as a horse can be. He is not ferocious as is one in a fit of rabies. He may kill his master, but he does it without design. There is in him no desire of mischief for its own sake, no cruel cunning, no stratagem and malice. A rabid horse is conscious in every act and motion. He recognizes the man he destroys. There is in him an insane desire to kill. Not so with the phrenetic horse. He is unconscious in his violence. He sees and recognizes no one. There is no method or purpose in his madness. ...

— A Ride With A Mad Horse In A Freight-Car - 1898 • W. H. H. Murray

More quotes...