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Crazy
Definitions
- 1 Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
"His ideas were both frightening and crazy."
- 2 Out of control.
"When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy."
- 3 Very excited or enthusiastic.
"He went crazy when he won."
- 4 In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
"Why is she so crazy about him?"
- 5 Very unexpected; wildly surprising. informal
"The game had a crazy ending."
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- 6 Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle. obsolete
"Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition."
- 7 Sickly, frail; diseased. obsolete
"Over moist and crazy brains."
- 1 intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with wordnet
- 2 possessed by inordinate excitement wordnet
- 3 bizarre or fantastic wordnet
- 4 foolish; totally unsound wordnet
- 5 affected with madness or insanity wordnet
- 1 Very, extremely. slang
"That trick was crazy good."
- 1 An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot. countable, slang
"Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?"
- 2 someone deranged and possibly dangerous wordnet
- 3 Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness. slang, uncountable
"Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do."
Etymology
From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”).
From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”).
From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”).
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