anger vs mad

anger

verb
  • To become angry. 

  • To cause such a feeling of antagonism in. 

noun
  • A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, or threat. 

mad

verb
  • To madden, to anger, to frustrate. 

adj
  • Bizarre; incredible. 

  • Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent. 

  • Having impaired polarity. 

  • Wildly confused or excited. 

  • Intensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many. 

  • Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies. 

  • Insane; crazy, mentally deranged. 

  • Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval. 

  • Angry, annoyed. 

  • Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for. 

adv
  • Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably. 

How often have the words anger and mad occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )