crazy
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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).
Base: craze
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: crazier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: craziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more crazy
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most crazy
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: crazies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
pos: adj
examples: His ideas were both frightening and crazy.
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.
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.
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
Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"
gloss: Out of control.
pos: adj
examples: When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.
gloss: Very excited or enthusiastic.
pos: adj
examples: He went crazy when he won.
The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
The craziest, most extraordinary banger race on the planet: 10,000+ miles from Prague to Siberia.
gloss: In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
pos: adj
examples: Why is she so crazy about him?
gloss: Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: crazy work
The game had a crazy ending.
[…] 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.
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.
“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.
gloss: Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition.
Piles of mean and crazy houses.
They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
Casement windows opened, crazy doors were unbarred, and people came forth shivering—chilled, as yet, by the new sweet air.
gloss: Sickly, frail; diseased.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Over moist and crazy brains.
One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
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.
gloss: Very, extremely.
pos: adv
tags: slang
examples: That trick was crazy good.
I'm crazy tired after today's shift at work.
I'm flat out. It's crazy stupid here, Kim.
gloss: An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?
gloss: Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do.
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
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
Translations: