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”

crazy, loony, looney, nutcase, weirdo

(noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)

(obsolete) Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle. [16th–19th c.]

(obsolete) Sickly, frail; diseased. [16th–19th c.]

Of unsound mind; insane, demented. [from 17th c.]

Out of control.

Very excited or enthusiastic.

In love; experiencing romantic feelings.

(informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:insane

• (out of control): off the chain, nutso

• (insane; lunatic; demented): deranged, loco, nutso, zany

Adverb

crazy (comparative more crazy, superlative most crazy)

(slang) Very, extremely.

Noun

crazy (countable and uncountable, plural crazies)

An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.

(slang, uncountable) Eccentric behaviour; lunacy.

Synonyms

• (insane or eccentric person): lunatic, mad man, nut ball, nut case, nutso, psychopath

Source: Wiktionary


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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