crazy

  • 31crazy — /ˈkreɪzi / (say krayzee) adjective (crazier, craziest) 1. demented; mad. 2. eccentric; bizarre; unusual. 3. unrealistic; impractical: a crazy scheme. 4. Obsolete likely to collapse, fall to pieces, or disintegrate: a crazy building. 5. Colloquial …

  • 32crazy — 1. n. a crazy person. □ The guy’s a crazy, and he keeps coming in here asking for money. □ I think the crazies are taking over the world. 2. mod. cool. □ This stuff is really crazy, man. I love it! □ …

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  • 33crazy — adjective, informal 1) he was acting like a crazy person Syn: mad, insane, out of one s mind, deranged, demented, not in one s right mind, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unhinged, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare; informal mental, nutty …

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  • 34crazy — adjective; informal 1) a crazy old man Syn: mad, insane, out of one s mind, deranged, demented, crazed, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged; informal mental, off one s head, round the bend; Brit.; informal barmy …

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  • 35crazy — 1. adjective /ˈkɹeɪzi/ a) insane, demented When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy. b) out of control He went crazy when he won. Syn: deranged …

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  • 36crazy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. insane (see insanity). Ant., sane. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. crazed, demented, mad; see absurd , insane 1 , stupid 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. mentally unstable insane, deranged, *off …

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  • 37crazy — [16] Crazy originally meant literally ‘cracked’ (a sense preserved in the related crazed). This soon came to be extended metaphorically to ‘frail, ill’ (as in Shakespeare’s ‘some better place, fitter for sickness and crazy age’, I Henry VI), and… …

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  • 38crazy — adjective (crazier, craziest) 1》 insane or unbalanced, especially as manifested in wild or aggressive behaviour.     ↘extremely foolish. 2》 informal extremely enthusiastic about something. 3》 appearing absurdly out of place or unlikely: the… …

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  • 39crazy — cra•zy [[t]ˈkreɪ zi[/t]] adj. zi•er, zi•est, 1) mentally deranged; insane 2) impractical; totally unsound: a crazy scheme[/ex] 3) inf intensely eager 4) inf infatuated (usu. fol. by about) 5) inf unusual; bizarre 6) sts Slang. wonderful 7) cvb… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 40crazy — [16] Crazy originally meant literally ‘cracked’ (a sense preserved in the related crazed). This soon came to be extended metaphorically to ‘frail, ill’ (as in Shakespeare’s ‘some better place, fitter for sickness and crazy age’, I Henry VI), and… …

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