Home › Words › M › madchildmadchildmadchild means A child who is insane.EtymologyFrom mad + child, by analogy to madman and madwoman.nounA child who is insane.e.g.“Sitting on the bed surveying the damage, she begins to notice some order to the chaos. Perhaps this is not the act of a madman (or madchild) after all.” — 1994, Murray Krantz, Child Development: Risk and Opportunity, →ISBN, page 297:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.madman 64% match — A man who is insane or mentally disturbed. vs madchild →madperson 61% match — A madman or madwoman. vs madchild →childmind 61% match — To look after children while their parents are absent. vs madchild →maddie 59% match — A mad person. vs madchild →lunatic 58% match — An insane person. vs madchild →insaniac 57% match — Insane and maniacal. vs madchild →demented 57% match — Insane; mentally ill. vs madchild →childling 56% match — A (little) child. vs madchild →