English Explanatory Dictionary

crazy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
  2. Out of control.
  3. Very excited or enthusiastic.
  4. In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
  5. Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
  6. Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle.
  7. Sickly, frail; diseased.
adv
  1. Very, extremely.
noun
  1. An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
  2. Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.

Pronunciation

krāzē /ˈkɹeɪ.zi/ /ˈkɹæɪ.zi/ en-us-crazy.ogg

Word forms

crazy crazier craziest more crazy most crazy crazies

Etymology

From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”), crackpot. Compare typologically Russian чо́кнутый (čóknutyj).

Synonyms

5150 bananas barking barking mad buggish buggy bughouse barmy batchy batpoop bats batty bonkers bread baskets cracked crackers cra-cra cray cray-cray crazed crazy crazy as a bedbug crazy as a cootie crazy as a cootie bug crazy as a pet coon cuckoo daffy daft demented deranged distraught disturbed doolally dotty eccentric fruit loops gaga hatstand harebrained insane kooky loon loco loony loony tunes loopy lunatic mad mental mentally ill meshigener meshugge moonsick nerts non compos mentis nonsane nucking futs nut job nutballs nut

Derived words

boy crazy boy-crazy bureaucrazy covid-crazy cray craze crazily craziness crazing crazo crazy ant crazy as a bedbug crazy as a cootie crazy as a cootie bug crazy as a fox crazy as a pet coon crazy as a shithouse rat crazy as a soup sandwich crazy-ass crazy bone crazy bread crazy cake crazy carpet crazy eight crazy eights crazy enough to work crazy glue crazy golf crazy golfer crazyhead crazyhouse crazyish crazyitis crazy like a fox crazy mad crazymaker crazymaking crazy man in the bottle crazy-pants crazy pants crazy-pated crazy-paved crazy paving crazy quilt crazyquilted crazysauce crazy straw crazy talk crazy top downy mildew crazy up crazy water crazyweed crunk democrazy drive someone crazy ecocrazy girl crazy go crazy let crazy stick its dick in you like crazy
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