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crazy
[krey-zee]
adjective
mentally deranged; demented; insane.
Synonyms: ,Antonyms:Informal.unpredictable, nonconforming, or odd.
All I can say is she's the craziest person I know.
Informal.unusual; bizarre; singular.
She always wears a crazy hat.
Informal.senseless; nonsensical; totally unsound.
Surely you don’t plan to invest money in that crazy scheme!
Synonyms: , ,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 orfor ).
Like many kids, he was crazy for baseball and yearned to be a professional ballplayer.
Antonyms: ,Informal.very enamored or infatuated (usually followed by about orfor ).
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.
Slang.wonderful; excellent; perfect.
That's crazy, man, crazy.
Archaic.likely to break or fall to pieces.
Synonyms: , ,Antonyms:Archaic.weak, infirm, or sickly.
Antonyms: ,
adverb
noun
plural
craziesa 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.
Informal.the crazies, 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.
crazy
/ ˈɪɪ /
adjective
informalinsane
fantastic; strange; ridiculous
a crazy dream
informal(postpositive; foll by about or over) extremely fond (of)
slangvery good or excellent
noun
informala crazy person
Other 51Թ Forms
- crazily adverb
- craziness noun
- half-crazy adjective
- ˈ adverb
- ˈԱ noun
Idioms and Phrases
like crazy,
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.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“It doesn’t mean you’re crazy. It just connects your thoughts, from childhood to now.”
No government can stop the rest of the world "going crazy", as one City source described it.
"Five years down the line hopefully I can work for myself and make more crazy silly stuff."
No. That would be the craziest thing of all time.
“The last few days, it’s been crazy,” she said from behind the red counter.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from 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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