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[ krey -zee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈkreɪ zi / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective, cra·zi·er, cra·zi·est. mentally deranged; demented; insane.
senseless; impractical; totally unsound: a crazy scheme.
Informal . intensely enthusiastic; passionately excited: crazy about baseball.
Informal . very enamored or infatuated (usually followed by about ): He was crazy about her.
Informal . intensely anxious or eager; impatient: I'm crazy to try those new skis.
Informal . unusual; bizarre; singular: She always wears a crazy hat.
Slang . wonderful; excellent; perfect: That's crazy, man, crazy.
likely to break or fall to pieces.
weak, infirm, or sickly.
having an unusual, unexpected, or random quality, behavior, result, pattern, etc.: a crazy reel that spins in either direction.
SEE MORE SEE LESS noun, plural cra·zies. Slang . an unpredictable, nonconforming person; oddball: a house full of crazies who wear weird clothes and come in at all hours.
the crazies, Slang . a sense of extreme unease, nervousness, or panic; extreme jitters: The crew was starting to get the crazies from being cooped up belowdecks for so long.
Idioms for crazylike crazy , Slang .with great enthusiasm or energy; to an extreme: We shopped like crazy and bought all our Christmas gifts in one afternoon. with great speed or recklessness: He drives like crazy once he's out on the highway. Origin of crazy First recorded in 1570–80; craze + -y1
SYNONYMS FOR crazy 1 crazed, lunatic.
2 foolish, imprudent, foolhardy.
8 rickety, shaky, tottering.
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ANTONYMS FOR crazy 1 sane.
3 calm, dispassionate.
8 stable.
9 strong; healthy.
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synonym study for crazy 1 . See mad.
OTHER WORDS FROM crazy cra·zi·ly, adverb cra·zi·ness, noun half-crazy, adjective Words nearby crazy Crayola, crayon, craythur, craze, crazed, crazy , crazy bone, crazy eights, crazy golf, Crazy Horse, crazy house
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Example sentences from the Web for crazy “We can all be arguing like crazy people but when you attack one, you attack us all.”
Trina Braxton To David Adefeso: ‘When You Attack One, You Attack Us All’ | Hope Wright| September 17, 2020| Essence.com
It was really crazy , and, at some point, you have to give yourself over to it.
“People want to believe”: How Love Fraud builds an absorbing docuseries around a romantic con man | Alissa Wilkinson| September 4, 2020| Vox
What I like about these episodes is the way they capture the stir-crazy energy of living in quarantine after all these months.
One Good Thing: Stephen Colbert is looser, funnier, and angrier in quarantine | Emily VanDerWerff| September 4, 2020| Vox
The butterflies were the craziest and most surreal experience.
How We Saved Our Neighborhood from a Wildfire | Dain Zaffke| September 2, 2020| Outside Online
So, I’ve never been one to really go crazy or do anything that wild, but I will say this.
Full Transcript: Tomi Lahren on ‘The Carlos Watson Show’ | Daniel Malloy| August 31, 2020| Ozy
You were basically the guy to do every dictator or crazy character, from Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad to Bin Laden.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness | Marlow Stern| January 7, 2015| DAILY BEAST
"That was crazy ," Lynn Jenkins of Kansas muttered to another member as she walked to greet Boehner.
Democrats Accidentally Save Boehner From Republican Coup | Ben Jacobs, Jackie Kucinich| January 6, 2015| DAILY BEAST
He came to Phoenix once and we went up to see him, and they got so crazy that I ended up trying to hitchhike home.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile | Robert Ward| January 3, 2015| DAILY BEAST
Just who is crazy enough to go swimming when the pond across the street has a layer of ice across the top?
Diving Into 2015 With Polar Bear Plunge Extremists | James Joiner| January 1, 2015| DAILY BEAST
That goodness steered him clear of the Sex Boys, the Crazy Homicides, the Sons of Nuns, and the other gangs of East New York.
In The Shadow of Murdered Cops | Michael Daly| December 26, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Why didnt he tell him then, instead of leaving that crazy note?
Peter Cotterell's Treasure | Rupert Sargent Holland
These have a logic of their own; but the dreamer has not even a crazy logic.
The Oxford Book of American Essays | Various
Did she ever express to you any fear that he might do something, and I use the vernacular again, crazy ?
Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
And then he was up and running along the crazy , sagging wharf, his dog barking playfully at his heels.
If I don't get down there that crazy Portygee'll have sold that vessel to some one else.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | Various
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British Dictionary definitions for crazy adjective -zier or -ziest informal insane
fantastic; strange; ridiculous a crazy dream
(postpositive; foll by about or over) informal extremely fond (of)
slang very good or excellent
Derived forms of crazy crazily , adverb craziness , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Idioms and Phrases with crazy In addition to the idioms beginning with crazy
crazy about, be crazy like a fox also see:
drive someone crazy like crazy SEE MORE ORIGINS SEE FEWER ORIGINS
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