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crazy
[ krey-zee ]
adjective
Synonyms: ,
Antonyms:
- Informal. unpredictable, nonconforming, or odd:
All I can say is she's the craziest person I know.
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 or for ):
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 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.
That's crazy, man, crazy.
- Archaic. likely to break or fall to pieces.
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- Archaic. weak, infirm, or sickly.
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adverb
December is a crazy busy month for us.
That new clothing store is crazy popular with teenage girls.
noun
- 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.
crazy
/ ˈɪɪ /
adjective
- informal.insane
- fantastic; strange; ridiculous
a crazy dream
- informal.postpositive; foll by about or over extremely fond (of)
- slang.very good or excellent
noun
- informal.a crazy person
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adverb
- ˈԱ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ·· adverb
- ··Ա noun
- -· adjective
Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
More idioms and phrases containing crazy
- drive someone crazy
- like crazy
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“There’s nothing we can do about a man like Trump. The guy is crazy.”
Waters said he loves everything he teases “and maybe that’s why I really never am mean, and people embrace even the most crazy s— I say.”
“Your body may be doing stuff that you don’t feel like you planned … We’ve seen people dance or go into crazy yoga poses and that kind of stuff.”
Ever since then, I’ve been marking fruit on my map, and now I have a crazy map where you can’t see streets, you can’t see any highways, because it’s just blue flags everywhere.
It's been a crazy journey and I didn't expect the books to do so well.
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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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