rabid

English

Etymology

From the Latin rabidus, from rabiō (“to rave”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæbɪd/, /ˈɹeɪbɪd/

• Audio (Southern England); /ˈɹæbɪd/:

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæbɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æbɪd

Adjective

rabid (comparative rabider, superlative rabidest)

A rabid dog with dropping saliva, which is an indicator of rabies.

1. Affected with rabies.

   a rabid dog or fox

2. Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.

   a rabid virus

3. (by extension) Furious; raging; extremely violent.
4. (figurative) Very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous.

   a rabid socialist

   rabid Green Bay Packers fans

Quotations

• 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

  The rabid flight, Of winds that ruin ships.

  The spelling has been modernized.

Derived terms

• rabidity
• rabidness
• rabid wolf spider

 

Translations

affected with rabies

• Armenian: կատաղի (hy) (kataġi)
• Asturian: rabiosu
• Azerbaijani: quduz (az)
• Belarusian: шалёны (šaljóny)
• Bulgarian: болен от бяс (bolen ot bjas)
• Catalan: rabiós
• Czech: vzteklý
• Dutch: dol (nl), hondsdol (nl)
• Finnish: raivotautinen (fi), vesikauhuinen (fi)
• French: enragé (fr) m
• Galician: rabioso, doente (gl) m or f
• German: tollwütig (de)
• Greek: λυσσασμένος (el) m (lyssasménos)
• Hungarian: veszett (hu)
• Irish: confach
• Italian: arrabbiato (it), rabbioso (it) m
• Malay: gila (ms)
• Mongolian: галзуу (mn) (galzuu)
• Polish: wściekły (pl)
• Portuguese: raivoso (pt)
• Romanian: turbat (ro)
• Russian: бе́шеный (ru) (béšenyj)
• Slovene: stekel (sl)
• Southern Altai: јӱӱлгек (ǰüülgek)
• Spanish: rabioso (es)
• Tày: bả
• Ukrainian: скаже́ний (skažényj)
• Vietnamese: dại (vi)
• Welsh: cynddeiriog (cy)

of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia

• Armenian: կատաղի (hy) (kataġi)
• Asturian: rabiosu
• Bulgarian: бесен (bg) (besen)
• Catalan: rabiós
• Finnish: raivotautinen (fi), vesikauhuinen (fi), raivotauti-, vesikauhu-
• German: Tollwut- (de) f
• Greek: λυσσώδης (el) m or f (lyssódis)
• Irish: confach
• Italian: arrabbiato (it)
• Mongolian: галзуу (mn) (galzuu)

furious; raging; extremely violent

• Armenian: կատաղի (hy) (kataġi)
• Asturian: rabiosu, rabiáu
• Bulgarian: яростен (bg) (jarosten), побеснял (bg) (pobesnjal)
• Catalan: rabiós
• Dutch: razend (nl)
• Emilian: rabî
• Finnish: raivokas (fi), raivoisa (fi)
• French: enragé (fr)
• Galician: rabioso, rabiado, doente (gl) m or f
• German: wütend (de), rabiat (de)
• Greek: λυσσαλέος (el) m (lyssaléos), μαινόμενος (el) m (mainómenos)
• Irish: confach
• Italian: arrabbiato (it)
• Latin: rabidus
• Plautdietsch: doll
• Portuguese: raivoso (pt), furioso (pt)
• Romanian: turbat (ro)
• Russian: я́ростный (ru) (járostnyj), бе́шеный (ru) (béšenyj), неи́стовый (ru) (neístovyj), взбеси́вшийся (ru) (vzbesívšijsja)
• Serbo-Croatian: bijesan (sh)
• Spanish: rabioso (es)
• Swedish: rabiat (sv)
• Ukrainian: лю́тий (uk) (ljútyj), скаже́ний (skažényj)

very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous

• Armenian: կատաղի (hy) (kataġi)
• Bulgarian: неистов (bg) (neistov)
• Emilian: rabî
• Finnish: kiihkeä (fi)
• German: fanatisch (de)
• Greek: φανατικός (el) m (fanatikós), μανιώδης (el) m or f (maniódis)
• Italian: arrabbiato (it)
• Russian: фанати́чный (ru) (fanatíčnyj), неи́стовый (ru) (neístovyj), я́ростный (ru) (járostnyj)
• Swedish: rabiat (sv)
• Ukrainian: здурі́лий (zdurílyj), скаже́ний (skažényj), зви́хнений (zvýxnenyj), збо́чений (zbóčenyj)

Noun

rabid (plural rabids)

1. A human or animal infected with rabies.
2. Someone who is fanatical in opinion.

Anagrams

• Baird, Bardi, bidar, braid