/ˈkɹeɪ.zi/, /ˈkɹæɪ.zi/
OriginFrom craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”).
- 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 ”
“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 you”
- 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.”
“The craziest, most extraordinary banger race on the planet: 10,000+ miles from Prague to Siberia.”
- In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
“Why is she so crazy about him?”
- informalVery unexpected; wildly surprising.
“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 ”
“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 secess”
- obsoleteFlawed 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.”
“Piles of mean and crazy houses.”
“They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.”
- obsoleteSickly, frail; diseased.
“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.”
- slangVery, extremely.
“That trick was crazy good.”
“I'm flat out. It's crazy stupid here, Kim.”
- countable, slangAn insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
“Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?”
- slang, uncountableEccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.
“Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do.”
Formscrazier(comparative) · craziest(superlative) · more crazy(comparative) · most crazy(superlative) · crazies(plural)