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CRAZY

crazy, wild, dotty, gaga

(adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; “crazy about cars and racing”; “they are dotty about each other”; “gaga over the rock group’s new album”

crazy

(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”

crazy

(adjective) bizarre or fantastic; “had a crazy dream”; “wore a crazy hat”

crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded

(adjective) foolish; totally unsound; “a crazy scheme”; “half-baked ideas”; “a screwball proposal without a prayer of working”

brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged

(adjective) affected with madness or insanity; “a man who had gone mad”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

crazier

comparative form of crazy

Source: Wiktionary


CRAZY

Cra"zy (kr"z), a. Etym: [From Craze.]

1. Characterized by weakness or feeblness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macualay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. Jeffrey.

2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. Over moist and crazy brains. Hudibras.

3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.] The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball. Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone.

– Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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