eristic vs mad

eristic

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

noun
  • One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. 

  • A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. 

mad

adj
  • Angry, annoyed. 

  • 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. 

  • 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 eristic and mad occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )