crazy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of unsound mind

   Of unsound mind; insane; demented.

   • His ideas were both frightening and crazy.
2. 2

   Out of control.

   • When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.
3. 3

   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.
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   1. 4

      In love

      In love; experiencing romantic feelings.

      • Why is she so crazy about him?
   2. 5

      Very unexpected

      Very unexpected; wildly surprising.

      • crazy work
      • 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 with pyrotechnics 287.
   3. 6

      Flawed or damaged

      Flawed 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.
   4. 7

      Sickly, frail

      Sickly, 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.
   5. 8

      Very, extremely.

      • That trick was crazy good.
      • I'm flat out. It's crazy stupid here, Kim.
   6. 9

      An insane or eccentric person

      An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.

      • Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?
   7. 10

      Eccentric behaviour

      Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.

      • Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do.

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