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sadder

English

Adjective

sadder

  1. comparative form of sad: more sad

Anagrams

  • Adders, adders, dreads, re-adds, readds, sarded

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madder

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?mæd?(?)/, [?mad?(?)]
  • (US) IPA(key): /?mæd??/, [?mæ???]
  • Rhymes: -æd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English mader, madere, mædere, from Old English mædere, mæddre, mædre, from Proto-Germanic *madar? (compare Swedish madra, Old Norse / Icelandic maðra), from Proto-Indo-European *mod?ro-, cognate with Proto-Slavic *modr? (blue), and compare Irish madar (madder), Latvian madara (madder).

Noun

madder (countable and uncountable, plural madders)

  1. A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
  2. The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
  3. A dye made from the plant.
  4. A deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

Synonyms

  • (Rubia tinctorum): common madder, dyer's madder
Derived terms
Translations

Adjective

madder (not comparable)

  1. Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.
Translations

See also

  • bedstraw
  • bluet
  • genipap
  • Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Adjective

madder

  1. comparative form of mad: more mad

Etymology 3

From mead

Noun

madder (plural madders)

  1. Obsolete form of mether.
    • c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) "O'Rourke's Feast":
      Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up,
      A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup,
      O there is the sport! []

References

  • Tenison, Thomas Joseph (1860) "On Methers and Other Ancient Drinking Vessels" Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society Vol.3NS No.1 p.54

Anagrams

  • MedDRA, dermad, dream'd, marded

Middle English

Adjective

madder

  1. comparative degree of mad

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