crazy Definition
crazy (krā′zē)
adjective -·zier, -·zi·est
- having flaws or cracks
- shaky or rickety; unsound
- unsound of mind; mentally unbalanced or deranged; psychopathic; insane
- of or for an insane person
- temporarily unbalanced, as with great excitement or rage
- Informal foolish, wild, fantastic, etc.; not sensible a crazy idea
- Informal very enthusiastic or eager crazy about the movies
Etymology: < craze
Slang used to express approval, pleasure, wonder, etc.: now rare
noun pl. -·zies
Slang an eccentric or mentally unbalanced person
crazy Related Forms
cra′·zily adverb
cra′·zi·ness noun
crazy Idioms
like crazy
☆Informal with great energy, intensity, etc.; without restraint
crazy Synonyms
crazy Usage Examples
Preposition: about
ember: So if your man's crazy about the ember, men's moissanite wedding rings would just be a perfect wedding gift for him.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- drive: Behind his icy façade lay something ominous, unspoken; the mystery drove both sexes crazy.
- go: Durham City Center is to going to go food crazy on Saturday 8th October.
Modifies a noun
- golf: Take a ride on the electric cars or test your skills on the crazy golf.
- paving: The ' water feature ' side of the crazy paving remained fairly tidy... .
- antic: We were frequently rewarded with nose rubs and his endless crazy antics!
- fool: I'm just waiting for a response along the lines of ' thats by design crazy fool ' , or similar...
- frog: I hope talk is xmas No 1. Its up against the crazy frog again!
- guy: The part with the crazy guy in the bunker was quite simply rubbish.
Modifying Another Word
- downright: Lots of mums and dads think it's too violent but it's just downright crazy!
- kinda: It reminded me of some kinda crazy dysfunctional family.
- absolutely: The idea that the BBC is biased just seems absolutely crazy to me.
- pretty: To most mums, that must seem a pretty crazy life choice.
- totally: This coming weekend is likely to be totally crazy.
Infinitive complement
miss: With all this going on in the flat, you'd be crazy to miss it!
Used with adjective complement
- stir: I think you will be ok to let them out now they must be going stir crazy.
- go: Two tracks I used to go crazy to back in the day!
- seem: You may find that an idea that seemed crazy at the time suddenly seems much more solid.
- sound: I mean less than 10 years ago this discussion would have sounded crazy to a lot of people.
Browse dictionary entries near crazy
- ‹ crazily
- ‹ craze
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- ‹ crayfish
- ‹ crawly
- ‹ crawling peg
- ‹ crawling
- ‹ crawler tractor
- ‹ crawl space
- ‹ crawl
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