crazy en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈkɹeɪ.zi/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈkɹæɪ.zi/ (Australia)
- krāzē
Etymology
From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”), crackpot. Compare typologically Russian чо́кнутый (čóknutyj).
Meanings
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Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"
2018, Ava Max, Madison Love, Tix, Cook Classics, Cirkut, “Sweet but Psycho”, in Heaven & Hell, performed by Ava Max: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 he was not able to bring any such thing to her recollection.
1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet: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 your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Now think of all the years you tried to Find someone to satisfy you I might be as crazy as you say If I'm crazy then it's true That it's all because of you And you wouldn't want me any other way
1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses:His ideas were both frightening and crazy.
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Out of control.
When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.
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Very excited or enthusiastic.
He went crazy when he won.
The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?:The craziest, most extraordinary banger race on the planet: 10,000+ miles from Prague to Siberia.
2020 January 8, Nikhil Krishnan, “Six of the world's most thrilling road trips for 2020”, in The Daily Telegraph:
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In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
Why is she so crazy about him?
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(informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
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 secession proposal on the ballot. But crazier things have happened.
2018 August 7, “Save us from another kooky California breakup plan”, in The Los Angeles Times:[…] 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 with pyrotechnics 287.
2010 May 27, Judy Astley, Blowing It: a brilliantly funny, mad-cap novel guaranteed to make you laugh from bestselling author Judy Astley, Random House, →ISBN, page 287:crazy work
“It’s been a long process and I’ve come close to giving up along the way, but this is undoubtedly the craziest archaeological excavation I’ve yet been part of,” Bloch said in the news release.
2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025:The game had a crazy ending.
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(obsolete) Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle.
They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
1816, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Madame de Larochejaquelein”, in The Edinburgh Review February 1816:Casement windows opened, crazy doors were unbarred, and people came forth shivering—chilled, as yet, by the new sweet air.
1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition.
1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 203:Piles of mean and crazy houses.
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
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(obsolete) Sickly, frail; diseased.
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.
c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin, published 1990, page 61:Over moist and crazy brains.
1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
1710 March 27 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, March 17, 1709–1710”, in The Spectator, number 15; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| craziest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| crazier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
crazy-paved · crazy top downy mildew · crazy mad · crazyhead · crazyhouse · crazy eight · crunk · crazy as a cootie · uncrazy · crazy bone · crazy cake · crazymaker · crazy straw · girl crazy · craziness · crazo · crazy glue · boy crazy · crazy as a pet coon · crazy enough to work · crazy as a bedbug · so crazy it might just work · drive someone crazy · crazy talk · crazy golfer · crazy as a cootie bug · boy-crazy · craze · crazy eights · stir crazy · crazy like a fox · go crazy · yellow crazy ant · crazy paving · so crazy it just might work · crazy ant · crazy carpet · crazy-pants · outcrazy · noncrazy · crazing · democrazy · cray · crazily · crazysauce · stir-crazy · crazy-pated · crazy as a soup sandwich · crazy-ass · crazy man in the bottle · crazyitis · crazy bread · bureaucrazy · covid-crazy · stick one's dick in crazy · crazy pants · crazymaking · like crazy · plumb crazy · crazyweed · crazy water · crazyish · crazy golf · crazy as a fox · crazy quilt · crazyquilted · ecocrazy · crazy up · crazy as a shithouse rat · let crazy stick its dick in you
Synonyms
off the beam · meshugge · nonsane · moonsick · batpoop · deranged · fucked in the head · zany · crazed · squirrelly · crazy as a bedbug · unsane · wackadoodle · insane · whacky · loopy · batcrap · buggish · nut · bughouse · fucked up · batty · daft · batshit · mad · cray · crazy as a cootie bug · amazing · crazy as a pet coon · 5150 · nuts · distraught · loon · whackjob · unbalanced · mental · barmy · sicko · over the edge · psycho · cracked · non compos mentis · hatstand · nutty · batchy · psychotic · fruit loops · whacko · psychoceramic · off the chain · doolally · buggy · tonto · bread baskets · wode · starkers · dotty · cra-cra · daffy · screwy · nutter · crazy as a cootie · cuckoo · nutballs · potty · bonkers · ripshit · demented · barking · gaga · loony tunes · bat-shit · crackers · eccentric · nucking futs · loco · weird · harebrained · lunatic · bananas · cray-cray · loony · bats · nerts · nut job · meshigener · barking mad · nutso · yampy · kooky · disturbed · crazy · apeshit · mentally ill
Translations (306)
ja 気が狂った (insane, demented) · es desatinado (insane, demented) · da gal (insane, demented) · cmn 瘋 /疯 (insane, demented) · cy gorffwyll (insane, demented) · ota مجنون (insane, demented) · ilo antutit (insane, demented) · pdt errsennich (insane, demented) · cs bláznivý (insane, demented) · fi kaheli (insane, demented) · hi पागल (insane, demented) · ca tocat del bolet (insane, demented) · ka შეშლილი (insane, demented) · mi pōrewharewha (insane, demented) · lad loko (insane, demented) · gd às a chiall (out of control) · vi điên rồ (out of control) · hu elborul az agya (out of control) · lv traks (insane, demented) · lou pa tou la (insane, demented) · hy գիժ (insane, demented) · tg ҷиннӣ (insane, demented) · tr kaçık (insane, demented) · it incredibile (very excited) · fi villi (out of control) · lv vājprātīgs (insane, demented) · ko 미치다 (insane, demented) · kmr dîn (insane, demented) · pam moret (insane, demented) · ru чо́кнутый (insane, demented) · ps مجنون (insane, demented) · it folle (insane, demented) · sh bèzūman (insane, demented) · bg побъ́ркан (insane, demented) · sl nor (insane, demented) · ru спя́тивший (insane, demented) · sv tokig (insane, demented) · sh лу̑д (insane, demented) · es tocado (insane, demented) · ilo ammangaw (insane, demented) · oc fòl (insane, demented) · la vēcors (insane, demented) · be шалёны (insane, demented) · mi heahea (insane, demented) · vi cuồng (insane, demented) · lv ārprātīgs (insane, demented) · ru сумасше́дший (insane, demented) · da gakgak (insane, demented) · fr insensé (insane, demented) · gl tolo (insane, demented) · sl blazen (insane, demented) · nl gestoord (insane, demented) · es desquiciado (out of control) · ca boig (out of control) · es zumbado (insane, demented) · ms gila (insane, demented) · bn মজনু (insane, demented) · km ឆ្កួត (out of control) · ilo allot (insane, demented) · ar مَخْبُول (insane, demented) · es creisi (insane, demented) · mi pōrangi (insane, demented) · rsk дурни (insane, demented) · so xuuf (insane, demented) · ca tocat de l'ala (insane, demented) · za bag (insane, demented) · cs trhlý (insane, demented) · lv traks (out of control) · tr aptal (insane, demented) · sh lȗd (insane, demented) · lou takala (insane, demented) · tr üşütük (insane, demented) · ko 미치다 (out of control) · ilo talpeng (insane, demented) · mn зүггүй (out of control) · ru ненорма́льный (insane, demented) · ceb buang (insane, demented) · fi kaheli (out of control) · nl getikt (insane, demented) · shu مشوطن (insane, demented) · yue 癡線 /痴线 (out of control) · ro înnebunit (insane, demented) · ru неадеква́тный (insane, demented) · ilo mauyong (insane, demented) · ilo murtit (insane, demented) · fa دیوانه (insane, demented) · grc μανιώδης (insane, demented) · ilo ketit (insane, demented) · cmn 瘋 /疯 (out of control) · ka არანორმალური (insane, demented) · pt louco (out of control) · ur پاگل (insane, demented) · mba buang (insane, demented) · pt maluco (insane, demented) · ca xalat (insane, demented) · fi hullu (out of control) · pl szalony (insane, demented) · es ideático (very excited) · es tronado (insane, demented) · sv sinnessjuk (insane, demented) · la īnsānus (insane, demented) · la dēlīrus (insane, demented) · es como una regadera (insane, demented) · tg девона (insane, demented) · it pazzesco (very excited) · tr deli (insane, demented) · km ឈ្លក់ (out of control) · nb gal (insane, demented) · lou fòl (insane, demented) · he מְשׁוּגָע (insane, demented) · es colgado (insane, demented) · ka უმართავი (out of control) · uk безу́мний (insane, demented) · tk däli (insane, demented) · hu bolond (insane, demented) · th บ้า (insane, demented) · fr chtarbé (insane, demented) · sv vansinnig (insane, demented) · da sindssyg (insane, demented) · hy խենթ (insane, demented) · hi दीवाना (insane, demented) · gl doudo (insane, demented) · am እብድ (insane, demented) · uk божеві́льний (insane, demented) · vi mất kiểm soát (out of control) · uk шале́ний (insane, demented) · rsk шалєни (insane, demented) · mi rorirori (insane, demented) · es tarambana (insane, demented) · it matto (insane, demented) · fa مجنون (insane, demented) · he מְטוֹרָף (insane, demented) · pt louco (insane, demented) · nb sinnsyk (insane, demented) · cy gwallgof (insane, demented) · cs pominutý (insane, demented) · yue 癲 /癫 (insane, demented) · tyz pền bả (insane, demented) · mi wairangi (insane, demented) · km ឧម្មត្តកៈ (insane, demented) · gd craicte (out of control) · fi hullu (insane, demented) · bn দেওয়ানা (insane, demented) · tl loko (insane, demented) · gd craicte (insane, demented) · pam murit (insane, demented) · nb galen (insane, demented) · fi järjetön (insane, demented) · ary مسطي (insane, demented) · ilo alintaweng (insane, demented) · nl gek (insane, demented) · es loco (insane, demented) · gl louco (insane, demented) · pt doido (insane, demented) · lt pamišęs (insane, demented) · es gagá (insane, demented) · es creisi (out of control) · ru безу́мный (out of control) · bg луд (insane, demented) · ka გადარეული (insane, demented) · cic haksi (insane, demented) · yue 癡線 /痴线 (insane, demented) · bn পাগল (insane, demented) · pl obłąkany (insane, demented) · eu ero (insane, demented) · es loco (in love) · sk bláznivý (insane, demented) · fr fou (out of control) · my နှမ်း (insane, demented) · ilo ullog (insane, demented) · hu őrült (insane, demented) · fr dérangé (insane, demented) · tyz bả (out of control) · az dəli (insane, demented) · izh hullu (insane, demented) · ilo bagtit (insane, demented) · fr fou (insane, demented) · tg маҷнун (insane, demented) · ary حمق (insane, demented) · mg adala (insane, demented) · ota دلی (insane, demented) · tyz pền bả (out of control) · mt miġnun (insane, demented) · sv från vettet (insane, demented) · haw pupule (insane, demented) · ar مَسْعُور (insane, demented) · ca foll (insane, demented) · mn солиотой (insane, demented) · et hull (insane, demented) · ca tronat (insane, demented) · ilo tiwel (insane, demented) · ga seafóideach (insane, demented) · cmn 瘋狂 /疯狂 (insane, demented) · it fuori di testa (out of control) · mi pōrewarewa (insane, demented) · eu zoro (insane, demented) · tyz bả (insane, demented) · ja 頭がおかしい (insane, demented) · roa-leo llocu (insane, demented) · ilo bultik (insane, demented) · ilo ambreng (insane, demented) · ilo agmuyot (insane, demented) · ru ошале́вший (insane, demented) · oc baug (insane, demented) · sh бѐзӯман (insane, demented) · cs ztřeštěný (insane, demented) · ilo ambagel (insane, demented) · es sonado (insane, demented) · gd às a chiall (insane, demented) · ast llocu (insane, demented) · lv traks (very excited) · roa-leo llocu (out of control) · vo lienetik (insane, demented) · es chiflado (insane, demented) · tl baliw (insane, demented) · hu megőrül (out of control) · th คลั่ง (out of control) · es chalado (insane, demented) · fr avoir une araignée au plafond (insane, demented) · pdt domm (insane, demented) · ilo balla (insane, demented) · sq i çmendur (insane, demented) · cs zbavený rozumu (insane, demented) · cy lloerig (insane, demented) · su gélo (insane, demented) · ru сумасше́дший (out of control) · ary هبيل (insane, demented) · tr çılgın (out of control) · mk луд (insane, demented) · de verrückt (out of control) · ps لېونی (insane, demented) · kk ақылсыз (insane, demented) · vi điên (insane, demented) · ilo alloy (insane, demented) · rsk хибни (insane, demented) · nb gæren (insane, demented) · da skør (insane, demented) · eo freneza (insane, demented) · lad budala (insane, demented) · ca sonat (insane, demented) · hu kattant (insane, demented) · srn law (insane, demented) · vi khùng (insane, demented) · ro nebun (insane, demented) · rsk блазни (insane, demented) · ro tulburat (insane, demented) · cs šílený (insane, demented) · hy խելագար (insane, demented) · lou fou (insane, demented) · id gila (insane, demented) · it pazzo (insane, demented) · es venático (very excited) · ky жинди (insane, demented) · el τρελός (insane, demented) · ilo attit (insane, demented) · ilo appat (insane, demented) · uz jinni (insane, demented) · fr taré (insane, demented) · km ឆ្កួត (insane, demented) · sv ur kontroll (out of control) · ilo kuwatit (insane, demented) · sk šialený (insane, demented) · kk есалаң (insane, demented) · pt doido (out of control) · ro nebun (out of control) · be бязу́мны (insane, demented) · tr manyak (insane, demented) · ltg troks (insane, demented) · it fantastico (very excited) · fi kahjo (out of control) · nl zot (insane, demented) · ca boig (insane, demented) · da sindsforvirret (insane, demented) · is brjálaður (insane, demented) · ru умалишённый (insane, demented) · vi điên rồ (insane, demented) · cmn 瘋狂 /疯狂 (out of control) · ps لېونی (out of control) · nl geschift (insane, demented) · km លលាតែ (insane, demented) · ka გიჟი (insane, demented) · sv tok (insane, demented) · fi mieletön (insane, demented) · ru поме́шанный (insane, demented) · yue 癲 /癫 (out of control) · ar أَحْمَق (insane, demented) · mn галзуу (insane, demented) · ro necontrolat (out of control) · sv galen (insane, demented) · hu elmegy az esze (out of control) · ar مَجْنُون (insane, demented) · el τρελός (out of control) · cs potrhlý (insane, demented) · fr dingo (insane, demented) · kmr bêhiş (insane, demented) · es orate (insane, demented) · cy ynfyd (insane, demented) · es ideoso (very excited) · nl krankjorum (insane, demented) · ur دیوانہ (insane, demented) · unm kpëcheònkël (insane, demented) · ru безу́мный (insane, demented) · de verrückt (insane, demented) · it impazzito (out of control) · ka შეურაცხადი (insane, demented) · es loco (out of control)