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crazy
[ krey-zee ]
adjective
Antonyms: sane
- 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!
- 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: dispassionate, cool
- 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.
Synonyms: passionate, impassioned, ardent
Antonyms: stable
- Archaic. weak, infirm, or sickly.
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
/ ˈkreɪzɪ /
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
- ˈcrazily, adverb
- ˈcraziness, noun
Other Words From
- cra·zi·ly adverb
- cra·zi·ness noun
- half-cra·zy 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
You were basically the guy to do every dictator or crazy character, from Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad to Bin Laden.
"That was crazy," Lynn Jenkins of Kansas muttered to another member as she walked to greet Boehner.
He came to Phoenix once and we went up to see him, and they got so crazy that I ended up trying to hitchhike home.
Just who is crazy enough to go swimming when the pond across the street has a layer of ice across the top?
That goodness steered him clear of the Sex Boys, the Crazy Homicides, the Sons of Nuns, and the other gangs of East New York.
All Weimar adores him, and people say that women still go perfectly crazy over him.
The wheezy, crazy mechanism of the car went to bits in unexpected places.
Half-fed men would dig for diamonds, and men sheltered by a crazy roof erect the marble walls of palaces.
Sometimes he looks at me as if he were going to break out with that crazy idea to which he treated me the other day.
You would think the poor teacher would be driven crazy, but he seems as calm as a daisy in a June breeze.
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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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