berserk vs mad

berserk

adj
  • Bizarre; weird. 

  • Furiously, injuriously, or maniacally violent or out of control. 

  • Wildly joyous; ecstatic. 

noun
  • Synonym of berserker (“a Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy”) 

mad

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. 

verb
  • To madden, to anger, to frustrate. 

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

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