Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or affected by rabies.
- adj. Raging; uncontrollable: rabid thirst.
- adj. Extremely zealous or enthusiastic; fanatical: a rabid football fan.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Furious; raging; mad.
- Specifically— Affected with rabies or hydrophobia, as a dog, wolf, horse, or man; hydrophobic; mad.
- Pertaining to rabies: as, rabid virus.
- Excessively or foolishly intense; rampant: as, a rabid Tory; a rabid teetotaler.
Wiktionary
- adj. Affected with rabies.
- adj. Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.
- adj. Furious; raging; extremely violent.
- adj. very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; comparable to one with rabies.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Furious; raging; extremely violent.
- adj. Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous.
- adj. Affected with the distemper called
rabies ; mad. - adj. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea
- adj. of or infected by rabies
Etymologies
- From the Latin rabidus, from rabere ("to rave"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin rabidus, from rabere, to rave. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I responded supporting the author and used the term rabid, as she did, to side with her.”
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“Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards, says she's scared of what she calls the rabid Republican who lives across the street from her house.”
“BATF has a history in rabid enforcement of gun laws against people who have little or no means to fight back.”
“And there is a fundamental problem with logic: why are those people that he identifies as rabid anti-Semites confiding in him of all people, and revealing their innermost thoughts to him?”
“Ms. DICKINSON: Well, use of the word rabid and party in the same sentence, not so much.”
“Mugridge seemed to be in rabid fear of the water, and he exhibited a nimbleness and speed we did not dream he possessed.”
“Teams that have a large amount of fans that have such an obsession with their team that their lives are practically based around the team are often called rabid fans (OhioFinFan4Life).”
“As to "rabid" - that may be a bit extreme almost said "bite" extreme but the fact that ms. closedmind resorts to Michelle Malkin as a proof-source should make everyone on the planet shutter.”
“Some older voters recall the rabid anti-Semites once prominent in the American far-right as well as the more genteel exclusionism practiced by more refined upper-class Republicans.”
“I was never what you'd call a rabid G. Dubya Bush-hater, but I do remember the day I first went "oh crap, we're all screwed!”
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