crazy
Informal. unpredictable, nonconforming, or odd: All I can say is she's the craziest person I know.
Informal. senseless; nonsensical; totally unsound: Surely you don’t plan to invest money in that crazy scheme!
Informal. extremely busy, hectic, chaotic, etc.: Yesterday was such a crazy day I hardly had time to eat.
Informal. intensely enthusiastic; passionately excited (usually followed by about or for): Like many kids, he was crazy for baseball and yearned to be a professional ballplayer.
Informal. very enamored or infatuated (usually followed by about or for): It's obvious he's just crazy about her.
Informal. intensely anxious or eager; impatient: I'm crazy to try those new skis.
Informal. very annoyed, frustrated, or bothered: It makes me crazy that some kids don't get a fair chance in life.
Informal. having an unusual, unexpected, or random quality, behavior, result, pattern, etc.: I'm back in Connecticut in a crazy twist of events, living in the same town where I grew up.
Archaic. likely to break or fall to pieces.
Archaic. weak, infirm, or sickly.
a person who is mentally deranged or insane.
Informal. an unpredictable, nonconforming person; oddball: Next door is a house full of crazies who wear weird clothes and come in at all hours.
the crazies, Informal. a sense of extreme unease, nervousness, or panic; extreme jitters: The crew was starting to get the crazies from being cooped up belowdecks for so long.
Idioms about crazy
like crazy, Informal.
with great enthusiasm or energy; to an extreme: We shopped like crazy and bought all our Christmas gifts in one afternoon.
with great speed or recklessness: He drives like crazy once he's out on the highway.
Origin of crazy
1synonym study For crazy
Other words for crazy
Opposites for crazy
Other words from crazy
- cra·zi·ly, adverb
- cra·zi·ness, noun
- half-cra·zy, adjective
Words Nearby crazy
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How to use crazy in a sentence
“We can all be arguing like crazy people but when you attack one, you attack us all.”
Trina Braxton To David Adefeso: ‘When You Attack One, You Attack Us All’ | Hope Wright | September 17, 2020 | Essence.comIt was really crazy, and, at some point, you have to give yourself over to it.
“People want to believe”: How Love Fraud builds an absorbing docuseries around a romantic con man | Alissa Wilkinson | September 4, 2020 | VoxWhat I like about these episodes is the way they capture the stir-crazy energy of living in quarantine after all these months.
One Good Thing: Stephen Colbert is looser, funnier, and angrier in quarantine | Emily VanDerWerff | September 4, 2020 | VoxThe butterflies were the craziest and most surreal experience.
So, I’ve never been one to really go crazy or do anything that wild, but I will say this.
You were basically the guy to do every dictator or crazy character, from Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad to Bin Laden.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness | Marlow Stern | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST"That was crazy," Lynn Jenkins of Kansas muttered to another member as she walked to greet Boehner.
Democrats Accidentally Save Boehner From Republican Coup | Ben Jacobs, Jackie Kucinich | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe came to Phoenix once and we went up to see him, and they got so crazy that I ended up trying to hitchhike home.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile | Robert Ward | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTJust who is crazy enough to go swimming when the pond across the street has a layer of ice across the top?
Diving Into 2015 With Polar Bear Plunge Extremists | James Joiner | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThat goodness steered him clear of the Sex Boys, the crazy Homicides, the Sons of Nuns, and the other gangs of East New York.
All Weimar adores him, and people say that women still go perfectly crazy over him.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayThe wheezy, crazy mechanism of the car went to bits in unexpected places.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeHalf-fed men would dig for diamonds, and men sheltered by a crazy roof erect the marble walls of palaces.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockSometimes he looks at me as if he were going to break out with that crazy idea to which he treated me the other day.
Confidence | Henry JamesYou would think the poor teacher would be driven crazy, but he seems as calm as a daisy in a June breeze.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. Pike
British Dictionary definitions for crazy
/ (ˈkreɪzɪ) /
informal insane
fantastic; strange; ridiculous: a crazy dream
(postpositive; foll by about or over) informal extremely fond (of)
slang very good or excellent
informal a crazy person
Derived forms of crazy
- crazily, adverb
- craziness, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with crazy
In addition to the idioms beginning with crazy
- crazy about, be
- crazy like a fox
also see:
- drive someone crazy
- like crazy
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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