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cra⋅zy

  [krey-zee] adjective, -zi⋅er, -zi⋅est, noun, plural -zies.
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–adjective
1. mentally deranged; demented; insane.
2. senseless; impractical; totally unsound: a crazy scheme.
3. Informal. intensely enthusiastic; passionately excited: crazy about baseball.
4. Informal. very enamored or infatuated (usually fol. by about): He was crazy about her.
5. Informal. intensely anxious or eager; impatient: I'm crazy to try those new skis.
6. Informal. unusual; bizarre; singular: She always wears a crazy hat.
7. Slang. wonderful; excellent; perfect: That's crazy, man, crazy.
8. likely to break or fall to pieces.
9. weak, infirm, or sickly.
10. having an unusual, unexpected, or random quality, behavior, result, pattern, etc.: a crazy reel that spins in either direction.
–noun
11. Slang. an unpredictable, nonconforming person; oddball: a house full of crazies who wear weird clothes and come in at all hours.
12. the crazies, Slang. 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.
—Idiom
13. like crazy,
a. Slang. with great enthusiasm or energy; to an extreme: We shopped like crazy and bought all our Christmas gifts in one afternoon.
b. with great speed or recklessness: He drives like crazy once he's out on the highway.
Origin:
1570–80; craze + -y 1

Related forms:
cra⋅zi⋅ly, adverb
cra⋅zi⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. crazed, lunatic. See mad. 2. foolish, imprudent, foolhardy. 8. rickety, shaky, tottering.

Antonyms:
1. sane. 3. calm, dispassionate. 8. stable. 9. strong; healthy.
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cra·zy   (krā'zē)   
adj.   cra·zi·er, cra·zi·est
  1. Affected with madness; insane.
  2. Informal Departing from proportion or moderation, especially:
    1. Possessed by enthusiasm or excitement: The crowd at the game went crazy.
    2. Immoderately fond; infatuated: was crazy about boys.
    3. Intensely involved or preoccupied: is crazy about cars and racing.
    4. Foolish or impractical; senseless: a crazy scheme for making quick money.
n.   pl. cra·zies
One who is or appears insane: "To them she is not a brusque crazy, but 'appropriately passionate'" (Mary McGrory).
cra'zi·ly adv., cra'zi·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Crazy

Cra"zy\ (kr[=a]"z[y^]), a. [From Craze.]

1. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.

Piles of mean andcrazy houses. --Macaulay.

One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. --Addison.

They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. --Jeffrey.

2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.

Over moist and crazy brains. --Hudibras.

3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.]

The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. --R. B. Kimball.

Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone.

Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : crazy
Spanish: loco,
German: verrückt,
Japanese: 狂った
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Main Entry: cra·zy
Pronunciation: 'krA-zE
Function: adjective
Inflected Forms: craz·i·er; -est
: MAD 1, INSANE —cra·zi·ly /-z&-lE/ adverb —cra·zi·ness /-zE-n&s/ noun
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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crazy

In addition to the idioms beginning with crazy, also see drive someone crazy; like crazy.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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