crazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪ.zi/
ipa: /ˈkɹæɪ.zi/
rhymes: -eɪzi
Forms: form: crazier
form: craziest
Etymology: From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”).
Senses: examples: text: His ideas were both frightening and crazy.
text: Those words appearing to be merely the ravings of superannuation, they were not regarded; but when no other traces of Mary could be found, old Andrew went up to consult this crazy dame once more, but he was not able to bring any such thing to her recollection.
ref: 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
text: Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Now think of all the years you tried to
Find someone to satisfy you
I might be as crazy as you say
If I'm crazy then it's true
That it's all because of you
And you wouldn't want me any other way
ref: 1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses:
text: Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"
ref: 2018, Ava Max, Madison Love, Tix, Cook Classics, Cirkut, “Sweet but Psycho”, in Heaven & Hell, performed by Ava Max:
synonyms: word: 5150
word: bananas
word: barking
word: barking mad
word: buggish
word: buggy
word: bughouse
word: barmy
word: batchy
word: batpoop
word: bats
word: batty
word: bonkers
word: bread baskets
word: cracked
word: crackers
word: cra-cra
word: cray
word: cray-cray
word: crazed
word: crazy
word: crazy as a bedbug
word: crazy as a cootie
word: crazy as a cootie bug
word: crazy as a pet coon
word: cuckoo
word: daffy
word: daft
word: demented
word: deranged
word: distraught
word: disturbed
word: doolally
word: dotty
word: eccentric
word: fruit loops
word: gaga
word: hatstand
word: harebrained
word: insane
word: kooky
word: loon
word: loco
word: loony
word: loony tunes
word: loopy
word: lunatic
word: mad
word: mental
word: mentally ill
word: meshigener
word: meshugge
word: moonsick
word: non compos mentis
word: nonsane
word: nucking futs
word: nut job
word: nutballs
word: nut
word: nuts
word: nutso
word: nutty
word: nutter
word: off the beam
word: off the chain
word: over the edge
word: potty
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: psychotic
word: sicko
word: screwy
word: squirrelly
word: starkers
word: tonto
word: unbalanced
word: unsane
word: wackadoodle
word: weird
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: whacky
word: wode
word: yampy
word: zany
word: apeshit
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bat-shit
word: fucked in the head
word: fucked up
word: ripshit
glosses: Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
examples: text: When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.
glosses: Out of control.
examples: text: He went crazy when he won.
text: The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
ref: 1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?:
text: The craziest, most extraordinary banger race on the planet: 10,000+ miles from Prague to Siberia.
ref: 2020 January 8, Nikhil Krishnan, “Six of the world's most thrilling road trips for 2020”, in The Daily Telegraph:
glosses: Very excited or enthusiastic.
examples: text: Why is she so crazy about him?
glosses: In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
examples: text: The game had a crazy ending.
text: […] at all, just a vast space of desert out in the saltlands of Nevada. It's serious dressing up, the maddest entertainment, craziest art, and at the end there's the burning of a huge effigy, stuffed with pyrotechnics 287.
ref: 2010 May 27, Judy Astley, Blowing It: a brilliantly funny, mad-cap novel guaranteed to make you laugh from bestselling author Judy Astley, Random House, →ISBN, page 287:
text: We'd like to think such a kooky idea has no shot at getting on the ballot, like the previous attempts by the two main Calexiters — Marcus Ruiz Evans and Louis J. Marinelli — to get some sort of secession proposal on the ballot. But crazier things have happened.
ref: 2018 August 7, “Save us from another kooky California breakup plan”, in The Los Angeles Times:
text: “It’s been a long process and I’ve come close to giving up along the way, but this is undoubtedly the craziest archaeological excavation I’ve yet been part of,” Bloch said in the news release.
ref: 2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN:
glosses: Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
examples: text: Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition.
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 203:
text: Piles of mean and crazy houses.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
ref: 1816, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Madame de Larochejaquelein”, in The Edinburgh Review February 1816:
text: Casement windows opened, crazy doors were unbarred, and people came forth shivering—chilled, as yet, by the new sweet air.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
glosses: Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle.
examples: text: Over moist and crazy brains.
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
text: One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
ref: 1710 March 28 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, March 17, 1709–1710”, in The Spectator, number 15; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: My poor aunt has often told me […] how long she herself was apprehensive lest my crazy frame, which is now of common shape, should remain for ever crooked and deformed.
ref: c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin, published 1990, page 61:
glosses: Sickly, frail; diseased.
Derived terms: boy crazy
boy-crazy
bureaucrazy
covid-crazy
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democrazy
drive someone crazy
ecocrazy
girl crazy
go crazy
let crazy stick its dick in you
like crazy
noncrazy
outcrazy
plumb crazy
so crazy it just might work
so crazy it might just work
stick one's dick in crazy
stir-crazy
stir crazy
uncrazy
yellow crazy ant