macrocosm, n. 1. universe, cosmos, globe, world, wide world, Inf. the whole wide world, all of creation, nature; heavens, firmament, sky, canopy, the blue, empyrean, vault of heaven, Chiefly Literary, welkin; heavenly bodies, celestial bodies or spheres, stars, planets, orbs; solar system, galaxy, nebula, extragalac-tic nebula.
2. total structure, totality, entirety.
3. enlargement, Photog. blow-up. macula, n. 1. macule, mark, spot, speck, freckle; blemish, pimple, whitehead, Pathol, milium, blackhead, Med. comedo, Sl. zit, Sl. woogit; pock, pockmark, pit, cicatrix, scar; imperfection, disfigurement, defect, flaw, mar; bruise, Sl. hickey; blotch, patch, discoloration, birthmark, Med. nevus, mole, wart.
2. maculation, stain, taint, spot, mark; soil, dirty mark, smudge, smutch, smear, smirch, blur. maculate, v. 1. mark, spot, speckle, bedaub, bespatter, spatter, splash; stain, smudge, smutch, smirch, smear; soil, dirty, sully, besmirch, muck or muck up, bemire; tarnish, blacken, discolor, mar, spoil.
2. pollute, infect, poison, contaminate, befoul or foul up, corrupt, defile, spoil, taint. -adj. 3. spotted, stained, marked, speckled, bespattered; stained, soiled, dirtied, sullied, besmirched; smudged, smutched, smirched, smeared, blurred; tarnished, blackened, discolored, marred, spoiled, mucked up. mad, adj. 1. insane, crazy, crazed, demented, lunatic, deranged; of unsound mind, Latin, non compos mentis-, daft, Inf daffy, unbalanced, touched, Inf unglued, Inf. half-baked, Brit. Sl. bonkers, unhinged, distracted; eccentric, flighty, odd, idiosyncratic, offbeat, queer, bizarre, Chiefly Brit. Inf. potty, Inf. dotty, Inf. crackpot; brainsick, Sl. kooky, Sl. meshuga; All Sl. balmy, dippy, batty, bats, cuckoo, buggy, bughouse, bugs, screwy, wacky, wacko, goofy, loony, squirrelly, bananas, nuts, nutty, nutty as a fruitcake.
2. out of one's head, out of one's mind, Scot. redwood, Sl. loco, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare, stark raving mad; not all there, not quite right, not right upstairs; Inf out in left field, Sl. in outer space, Sl. in orbit, Inf. off the wall; Inf. cracked, Inf. mental, Sl. schizo, Sl. off one's rocker, Sl. out of one's tree, Sl. off one's trolley, Brit. Sl. off one's chump; All Sl. have bats in one's belfry, have a few buttons missing, have a few loose screws.
3. enraged, raging, fuming, infuriated, Rare, infuriate, furious; angry, irate, ireful, incensed, wrathful, wroth; in a huff, up in arms, in high dudgeon; at the end of one's rope, Inf. fed up, ready to burst; inflamed, flaming, flaring, fiery, flared up, flushed with anger, red-hot, white-hot.
4. irritated, annoyed, peeved, vexed; piqued, chafed, galled, riled, nettled; displeased, indignant.
5. maniacal, hysterical, madding, Archaic, wood, delirious; frantic, frenzied, frenetic; ranting, raving, storming, foaming at the mouth, convulsing; overwrought, distraught, upset, worked-up, wrought-up, stirred-up; exasperated, provoked; beside oneself, at one's wit's end; out of control, uncontrollable, unre-strainable, corybantic, Inf. haywire, berserk, wild; violent, stormy, fierce, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent.