crazyquilt
crazyquilt is the alternative form of crazy quilt.
Meaning of crazy quilt
Noun
crazy quilt (plural crazy quilts)
- A quilt made from random patches, without any unifying design.
- An uncoordinated jumble of things, ideas, practices, policies, etc.
Adjective
crazyquilt (comparative more crazyquilt, superlative most crazyquilt)
- Formed by a seemingly random assortment of things.
- World War II drained the community of physicians and health personnel, created housing shortages and job mobility, and served to push more people into a crazyquilt variety of nursing homes which seemed to assure housing and medical care.1975, Ruth I. Knee, Human Factors in Long Term Health Care, page 63
- Furthermore, groundwater doctrines follow a much more crazyquilt pattern, and several states have unique statutory approaches to groundwater.2000, Joseph L. Sax, Legal Control of Water Resources: Cases and Materials, page 758
Forms of crazyquilt
| Noun | |
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| plural | crazyquilts |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more crazyquilt |
| superlative | most crazyquilt |
Words formed from crazyquilt
Questions about crazyquilt
- What does crazyquilt mean?
- Crazyquilt means formed by a seemingly random assortment of things.
- What is crazyquilt the alternative form of?
- Crazyquilt is the alternative form of crazy quilt.
- What part of speech is crazyquilt?
- Crazyquilt is an adjective.
Words near crazyquilt in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crazyquilt (page history and authors); crazy quilt (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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