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Definition of "maddening" []

  • Tending to anger or irritate: a maddening delay at the airport. (adjective)
  • Tending to drive insane. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "maddening" in a sentence
  • "Let it suffice that many of my pain - maddening waking hours were devoted to dreams of vengeance on Cecil"
  • "What's maddening is that with all of our technology a lot of the paperwork side of this SHOULD BE instant (speed of the internet and all of that)."
  • "Although far, far more maddening is when they do things like, I'm ten feet from the wall and they know I'm five times faster if they can, you know, SEE ME AT ALL, and they'll push off instead of letting me do my flip turn and move ahead of them."