crazy
Syllables: cra·zyUK/ˈkɹeɪ.zi/
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Australia/ˈkɹæɪ.zi/
crazy adjective: of unsound mind; insane; demented.
Adjective
crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)
- Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
- 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.1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
- Out of control.
- When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.
- Very excited or enthusiastic.
- He went crazy when he won.
- The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?
- In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
- Why is she so crazy about him?
- Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
- crazy work
- The game had a crazy ending.
- Synonyms:
- amazing
- Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle.
- Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition.1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 203
- Piles of mean and crazy houses.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...
- Sickly, frail; diseased.
- Over moist and crazy brains.1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.1710 March 27 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, March 17, 1709–1710”, in The Spectator, number 15; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a...
Adverb
crazy (comparative more crazy, superlative most crazy)
Noun
crazy (countable and uncountable, plural crazies)
- An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
- Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?2011, “Pilot”, in Allen Gregory, season 1, episode 1
- Synonyms:
- basket case, basket weaver, crack, crackpot, crazyhead, dingbat, eccentric, fruit and nut case, fruit cake, fruit loop
- Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.
- Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do.2013, Douglas Schwartz, Checkered Scissors, page 211
crazy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
crazy in Hindi
- insane, demented
- पागल pāgal, दीवाना dīvānā
crazy in Tamil
- கிறுக்கான, பித்துபிடித்த, மன மாற்றமான, வெடிப்புள்ள, பிளவாக்கப்பட்ட, கப்பல் வகையில் ஆட்டங்கொடுக்கிற
crazy in Marathi
- crazy, insane
- दिवाणे divāṇe
- crazy, kooky, insane
- विक्षिप्त vikṣipta
crazy in Urdu
- insane, demented
- پاگل pāgal, دیوانہ dīvānā
More languagesFewer languages
- crazy in Bengali
- দেওয়ানা deōẇana, পাগল pagol, মজনু mojonu
- crazy in Malayalam
- കിറുക്കുള്ള, വാതുല, ഭ്രാന്തുള്ള, ഉന്മത്തനായ
- crazy in Kannada
- ಒಡೆದ, ಬಿರುಕುಬಿಟ್ಟ, ಹುಚ್ಚುಹಿಡಿದ
- crazy in Punjabi
- ਪਾਗਲ pāgal, جھلا jhallā, ਦਿਵਾਨਾ divānā
- crazy in Gujarati
- દીવાનું dīvānũ
- crazy in Pashto
- لېونی lewanay, مجنون majnǔn, لېونۍ lewanëy
- crazy in Tagalog
- baliw, loko
- crazy in Arabic
- مَجْنُون majnūn, مَخْبُول maḵbūl, مَسْعُور masʕūr, أَحْمَق ʔaḥmaq
- crazy in Malay
- gila
- crazy in Indonesian
- gila
- crazy in Persian
- دیوانه divâne, مجنون majnun
- crazy in Thai
- บ้า bâa, คลั่ง klâng
- crazy in Vietnamese
- điên, điên rồ, cuồng, khùng
- crazy in Myanmar
- နှမ်း hnam:
Examples of crazy in a sentence
- Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"2018, Ava Max, Madison Love, Tix, Cook Classics, Cirkut, “Sweet but Psycho”, in Heaven & Hell, performed by Ava Max:
- They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.1816, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Madame de Larochejaquelein”, in The Edinburgh Review February 1816:
- Casement windows opened, crazy doors were unbarred, and people came forth shivering—chilled, as yet, by the new sweet air.1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
- 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.c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin, published 1990, page 61:
Synonyms of crazy
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Forms of crazy
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | crazier |
| superlative | craziest |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more crazy |
| superlative | most crazy |
| Noun | |
| plural | crazies |
Origin of crazy
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).
Words formed from crazy
- 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
Phrases with crazy
- Crazy Dog
- crazy ants
- Crazy Ivan
- goes crazy
- gone crazy
- stir crazy
- went crazy
- crazy bones
- crazy cakes
- Crazy Ivans
- going crazy
- plumb crazy
20 more phrasesFewer phrases
- crazy quilts
- crazy straws
- crazy carpets
- crazy golfers
- crazy pavings
- Crazy Mountains
- yellow crazy ant
- yellow crazy ants
- drove someone crazy
- driven someone crazy
- drives someone crazy
- driving someone crazy
- stick one's dick in crazy
- stuck one's dick in crazy
- sticks one's dick in crazy
- so crazy it just might work
- so crazy it might just work
- sticking one's dick in crazy
- lets crazy stick its dick in you
- letting crazy stick its dick in you
Words that rhyme with crazy
Questions about crazy
- What does crazy mean?
- Crazy means of unsound mind; insane; demented.
- What is crazy in Hindi?
- Crazy in Hindi is पागल (pāgal), दीवाना (dīvānā). See Crazy meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use crazy in a sentence?
- Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"
- What part of speech is crazy?
- Crazy can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce crazy?
- Crazy is pronounced /ˈkɹeɪ.zi/ (UK).
Words near crazy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: crazy (page history and authors); crazy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दिवाणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); crazy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); crazy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); جھلا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); દીવાનું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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