crazy — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Of unsound mind; insane; demented.

   Examples

   His ideas were both frightening and crazy.

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   Those words appearing to be merely the ravings of superannuation, they were not regarded; but when no other traces of Mary could be found, old Andrew went up to consult this crazy dame once more, but he was not able to bring any such thing to her recollection.

   Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

   Now think of all the years you tried to Find someone to satisfy you I might be as crazy as you say If I'm crazy then it's true That it's all because of you And you wouldn't want me any other way

   Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"

2. Out of control.

   Examples

   When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.

3. Very excited or enthusiastic.

   Examples

   He went crazy when he won.

   The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.

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   The craziest, most extraordinary banger race on the planet: 10,000+ miles from Prague to Siberia.

4. In love; experiencing romantic feelings.

   Examples

   Why is she so crazy about him?

5. Very unexpected; wildly surprising.

   Usage

   • Informal

   Synonyms

   amazing

   Examples

   crazy work

   The game had a crazy ending.

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   […] at all, just a vast space of desert out in the saltlands of Nevada. It's serious dressing up, the maddest entertainment, craziest art, and at the end there's the burning of a huge effigy, stuffed with pyrotechnics 287.

   We'd like to think such a kooky idea has no shot at getting on the ballot, like the previous attempts by the two main Calexiters — Marcus Ruiz Evans and Louis J. Marinelli — to get some sort of secession proposal on the ballot. But crazier things have happened.

   “It’s been a long process and I’ve come close to giving up along the way, but this is undoubtedly the craziest archaeological excavation I’ve yet been part of,” Bloch said in the news release.

6. Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition.

   Piles of mean and crazy houses.

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   They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.

   Casement windows opened, crazy doors were unbarred, and people came forth shivering—chilled, as yet, by the new sweet air.

7. Sickly, frail; diseased.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   Over moist and crazy brains.

   One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.

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   My poor aunt has often told me […] how long she herself was apprehensive lest my crazy frame, which is now of common shape, should remain for ever crooked and deformed.

Adverb

1. Very, extremely.

   Usage

   • Slang

   Examples

   That trick was crazy good.

   I'm crazy tired after today's shift at work.

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   I'm flat out. It's crazy stupid here, Kim.

Noun

1. An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Slang

   Examples

   Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?

2. Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.

   Usage

   • Slang
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do.

Adjective

1. affected with madness or insanity

   Synonyms

   brainsickdementeddisturbedmadsickunbalancedunhinged

   Examples

   a man who had gone mad

2. foolish; totally unsound

   Synonyms

   half-bakedscrewballsoftheaded

   Examples

   a crazy scheme

   half-baked ideas

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   a screwball proposal without a prayer of working

3. possessed by inordinate excitement

   Examples

   the crowd went crazy

   was crazy to try his new bicycle

4. bizarre or fantastic

   Examples

   had a crazy dream

   wore a crazy hat

5. intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with

   Synonyms

   wilddottygaga

   Examples

   crazy about cars and racing

   they are dotty about each other

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   gaga over the rock group's new album

Noun

1. someone deranged and possibly dangerous

   Synonyms

   loonylooneynutcaseweirdo

   Broader terms

   lunaticmaniac