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Crazy

Definition: Crazy

Crazy

Adjective

1. Affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad".

2. (informal) foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working".

3. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "she was crazy about him"; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her".

4. (informal) possessed by inordinate excitement; "the crowd went crazy"; "was crazy to try his new bicycle".

5. Bizarre or fantastic; "had a crazy dream"; "wore a crazy hat".

6. (informal) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy about cars and racing".

Noun

1. Someone deranged and possibly dangerous.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crazy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Crazy

DomainDefinition

Multilingual Slang

English (postal), Japanese (baka ). (references)

Slang

Postal. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Crazy

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Crazy is a song written by Willie Nelson, and was most notably sung by Patsy Cline, her third country hit song.

Crazy is also the title of a song performed by Britney Spears. It peaked in 1999.

It is also a general term used to describe people with a mental illness.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crazy."

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Synonyms: Crazy

Synonyms: brainsick (adj), demented (adj), distracted (adj), disturbed (adj), dotty (adj), enamored (adj), gaga (adj), half-baked (adj), in love (adj), infatuated (adj), mad (adj), meshuga (adj), meshugge (adj), screwball (adj), sick (adj), smitten (adj), soft on(p) (adj), softheaded (adj), taken with(p) (adj), unbalanced (adj), unhinged (adj), looney (n), loony (n), weirdo (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Crazy

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Insanity

Become insane; adj; lose one's senses, lose one's reason, lose one's faculties, lose one's wits; go mad, run mad, lose one's marbles, go crazy, go bonkers, flip one's wig, flip one's lid, flip out, flip one's bush.

Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head.

Madman

Noun: madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, candidate for Bedlam, raver, madcap, crazy; energumen; automaniac, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac; hypochondriac; (low spirits); crank, Tom o'Bedlam.

Weakness

Broken, lame, withered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Crazy

English words defined with "crazy": apologise, apologizeCrack-brained, crazeDelirament, dottyenamored, excusegagahalf-baked, hold, Horn-madin love, in the bonnet, infatuatedjustifykookLune, LunyMad, madden, meshuga, meshugge, meshuggenerodd fellow, odd fish, odd man outqueer bird, queer duckrationalise, rationalizescrewball, smitten, soft on, softheadedtake hold, taken with. (references)
Specialty definitions using "crazy": AminaDevelmentHalf a bubble offKaled, Kook, kookyoff the handleReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, RodolphoTHAW. (references)

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Modern Usage: Crazy

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's kind of like when you go on vacation: you plan everything out, but then one day you make a wrong turn, or take a detour, and you end up in some crazy place you can't even find on the map, doing something you never thought you'd do. Maybe you feel a little lost while it's happening, but later you realize it was the best part of the whole trip (Threesome; writing credit: Andrew Fleming.)

There's three times in a man's life when he's got a right to howl at the moon, when he marries, when his children are born and when he finishes a job he was crazy to start (Red River; writing credit: Borden Chase)

You're right, it's crazy. In fact, it's even worse than that, it's nuts (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

Hey Crazy Eyes, I got your pizza just how you like it. (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

I'm going crazy. I'm standing here solidly on my own two hands and going crazy (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart. Based on the play by Philip Barry.)

Lyrics

I go crazy, crazy, baby, I go crazy (Crazy; performing artist: Aerosmith)

You Drive Me Crazy baby ((You Drive Me) Crazy - Stop Remix; performing artist: Britney Spears)

I'm crazy for you (Crazy For You; performing artist: Madonna)

Every hour of every day, I miss you like crazy, I miss you like crazy (Miss You Like Crazy; performing artist: Natalie Cole; writing credit: M. Masser, G. Foffin, P. Glass)

Ooh it’s kinda crazy (Ohh It's Kinda Crazy; performing artist: Soul Decision)

Clever

Don't let people drive you crazy when it is within walking distance. (references; author: unknown)

How do crazy people go through the forest?  They take the psycho path. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)

Football Crazy (1974)

L' Affaire Crazy Capo (1973)

Crazy - total verrückt (1973)

Four Crazy Soldiers (1971)

Song Titles

Crazy Baby (performing artist: Rodney Crowell)

Crazy (performing artist: K-Ci & JoJo)

Crazy For You (performing artist: Madonna)

I Drive Myself Crazy (performing artist: 'N Sync)

Miss You Like Crazy (performing artist: Natalie Cole)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Crazy

DomainTitle

References

  • Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Crazy Time: Surviving Divorce and Building a New Life (reference)

  • The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions: More Than 65 Wacky, Wild & Crazy Concoctions (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps - The Concert Film (reference)

  • Scorpions - A Savage Crazy World (reference)

  • So Little Time - Boy Crazy (Vol. 2) (reference)

  • Gods Must Be Crazy, The (reference)

  • One Crazy Summer (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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Image Slideshow: Crazy

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Photo Album: Crazy

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Sometimes folks go crazy in the Arctic Not really!!! Just taking a bath Triangulation party of Lorne G. Taylor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Actress Ethyl Merman, star of the stage hit "Girl Crazy", presents a young goat (lower right) to the ship's crew, possibly at about the time of Pensacola's commissioning in February 1930. Accepting the gift is the ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Alfred G. Howe, USN. Credit: NAVY.

Seven dollars fo' one hat!!!! : come right out of dis!!! : is you crazy. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Crazy, man, crazy". Credit: Library of Congress.

Crazy Walking, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing feathered headdress and holding peace pip. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chitto Harjo or Crazy Snake, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Duncan..

Chief Crazy Horse. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coal miners and their families watching the girls and women's skirts blow up in the "crazy boat" at the outdoor carnival. Granville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Visitor (to Tin Pan Alley): "Good Lord, who's th' crazy guy?". Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Crazy
 

"Crazy Sky over Brooklyn" by David Solodukho
Commentary: "Amaizing cloud formations over the Brooklyn Bridge ."
"Woman in a crazy pose" by Annie Andre
Commentary: "This is me doing some crazy pose. What was i thinking."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Crazy".

PlayCaption
Echoing laugh of a crazy man.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Crazy

AuthorQuotation

Charles Manson

A long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Horace

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

Irwin S. Cobb

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.

Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Lee Remick

Many times as an actress I feel crazy, yet the truth is that I would feel far more crazy if I were not an actress.

Nancy Reagan

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Niels Bohr

Your theory is crazy--but not crazy enough to be true.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Crazy

TitleAuthorQuote

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

Douglas Adams

Any observers in the place would have been mean hawklike observers, heavily armed, with painful throbbings in their heads which caused them to do crazy things when they observed things they didn't like

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

I should go crazy in the first place, I should die, I should make myself sick, I should throw myself into the river

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Got a fella crazy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Crazy

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Bahrain

Thirteen international rides and games featured will include the crazy river game, slides and wave pool. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Crazy

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Angelina Jolie

I loved it. It was really good for me. It's really good for me to jump around and get crazy and get loud because it calms me.

Carol Channing

You bare your heart and soul and body to possible axe murderers, to hitmen, to crazy people, to somebody. You bear it and do it anyway. It's the only way. And I have done it since the fourth grade.

Conan O'Brien

Murdoch would go for it because he's a betting man. That guy's crazy, Murdoch, so he'll go for it. And NBC, they'll do as I tell them. They'll do as I tell them.

Dennis Quaid

Lydia, look, don't leave. You know you love me. Look, I know you're crazy about me. I mean, in a week or two, I'm going to call you, you're going to call me, we're going to be back together again.

Martha Stewart

People love that, you take this to the office, take one for everybody in your office and you give that and you say, I made those cookies. They'll go crazy over them, I guarantee it.

Matthew Perry

Yeah. Well, it was alcohol and then there were other drugs that are actually just as dangerous that I was taking to try to drink less. But it was a completely crazy time.

Sean Penn

Well, I'm probably crazy about it, but it also drives me crazy. But I think right now, as I look to the future, it's a different conversation, because the future, for me, right now, is very much occupied with the other things that we're talking about.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Crazy

"Crazy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.69% of the time. "Crazy" is used about 1,783 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)96.69%1,7244,876
Noun (proper)2.97%5346,657
Noun (common)0.34%6143,867
                    Total100.00%1,783N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Crazy

CountryName
USA

Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp Incorporated

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Crazy

Expressions using "crazy": be crazy be crazy about be crazy about smb. be crazy about smth. be crazy for become crazy crazy about crazy behavior crazy bone crazy chick disease crazy for crazy Glue Crazy Horse crazy house crazy idea crazy mood crazy notion crazy pavement crazy paving crazy person crazy quilt crazy thing crazy weather crazy weed drive crazy drive one crazy drive smb. crazy go crazy like crazy make crazy plumb crazy stark crazy. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "crazy": crazy-angled, crazy-ass, crazy-golf, crazy-paved, crazy-pavement, crazy-paving.

Ending with "crazy": cricket-crazy, dance-crazy, game-crazy, girl-crazy, golf-crazy, grapple-crazy, guitar-crazy, gun-crazy, half-crazy, hardcore-crazy, japan-crazy, man-crazy, motor-crazy, not-so-crazy, pet-crazy, power-crazy, quote-crazy, rugby-crazy, sex-crazy, sports-crazy, steffi-crazy, stir-crazy, turtle-crazy, war-crazy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crazy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

crazy in love

7,991

crazy bones

190

crazy

2,421

crazy hair style

185

crazy in love lyrics

1,551

album beyonce crazy in love lyrics version

180

crazy horse

1,312

crazy for you lyrics

180

beyonce crazy in love

895

crazy train

176

beyonce crazy in love lyrics

711

crazy horse monument

172

crazy town

641

girl gone crazy

160

crazy with love

601

crazy quilt

154

crazy taxi

528

crazy video

146

beyonce crazy in love video

508

beyonce crazy in knowles love lyrics

139

crazy picture

422

crazy eddie

138

girl crazy

420

crazy for you

128

crazy in love video

331

crazy people

127

crazy browser

290

beyonce by crazy in love lyrics

126

crazy beautiful

276

young neil crazy horse

124

crazy contact

241

damion crazy leg hall

123

crazy game

223

sex crazy

119

crazy shirt

198

drive me crazy

117

beyonce crazy in knowles love

195

crazy dad gone

108

crazy pic

194
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Crazy

Language Translations for "crazy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

mal (insane, mad, nuts), besete (insane, mad, nuts), bedol (insane, mad, nuts). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

maniakal (compulsive), i pasigurt (chancy, Dickey, dicky, disputable, doubtful, dubious, faithless, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, questionable, touch and go, tricksy, trustless, truthless, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unreliable, unsafe, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy), i marrë (Batty, crack-brained, Daffy, delirious, demented, deranged, dippy, insane, mad, madman, phrenetic, wildcat, zany), i lojtur (insane), i lëkundur (Dickey, dicky, Dotty, hesitant, hesitating, shilly shally, tottering, tottery, undecided, vacillating), i çmendur (anile, bedlamite, berserk, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazed, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, frantic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, muddy, non compos, not all there, phrenetic, underwit, wild), ekstravagant (fancy, florid, high-flown). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مهوس (fiend, mad), ‏مسعور (frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hydrophobic, mad, rabid, wild), ‏معتوه (batty, cracked, crackpot, demented, dim witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, mentally deranged, off his head, possessed, screwy, sodden, soft-headed, stupid, up the pole, witless), ‏مخبل (crack-brained, demented, idiotic, imbecile, insane, mad, mentally deranged), ‏مجنون (barmy, bedlam, bonkers, daft, demented, dotty, fool, insane, mad, madcap, maniac, maniacal, nut, off one's nut, out of one's head, out of one's mind, scatty, screwy, tomfool, up the pole), ‏مجزع (marbled, streaked, streaky, veined), ‏واهن (atonal, atonic, doddery, effete, enervate, feeble, flagging, impotent, infirm, invalidity, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lower, nerveless, powerless, prostrate, rusty, shrivelled, sickly, sluggish, spiritless, stunted, tender, weak, weakling, weakly, wimp), ‏سريع العطب, ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏جنوني (furious, insane, lunatic, madcap, manic, terrific), ‏شديد الحماسة. (various references)

   

Basque

  

ero. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разнебитен (beaten up, broken down, crank, cranky, decrepit, dilapidated, raddle, ramshackle, rickety, shaky, unstrung), вманиачен (faddy), луд (bedlamite, bonkers, crazed, daft, demented, kinky, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, off one's nut, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, possessed, potty, scatty, screwy, wild), полудял (frenzied, gone mad, haywire, loco, mad, possessed), побъркан (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, cockeyed, crank, cuckoo, demented, having a screw loose, light-head, light-headed, mental, moonstruck, nutty, touched). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(convulsions), 發狂 (mad, madly), (convulsions), 疯狂 (AMOK, Amuck, Craziness, demented, frenzied, Frenzies, frenzy, insane, insanity, mad, madness, maniacal). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ztřeštìný (featherbrained, wildcat, zany), zbláznìný, výstřední (eccentric, extravagant, fantastic, garish, high-flown, queer), bláznivý (crackpot, loco, mad, wild, zany), šílený (berserk, crackpot, demented, frenzied, furious, harebrained, insane, lunatic, mad, manic, terrible, terrific, tomfool). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sindssyg (insane, mad, nuts). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

krankzinnig (insane, mad, nuts), gek (absurd, insane, lunatic, mad, nuts, odd, peculiar, ridiculous, strange), dolzinnig (insane, mad, nuts), dol (drunk, foolish, furious, insane, intoxicated, mad, nuts, rabid). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

freneza (insane, mad, nuts). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

vitleysur (insane, mad, nuts), frá sær sjálvum (insane, mad, nuts). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

شکاف دار (Clef, Cloven), شوریده (Berserk, Distraught, Phrenetic), دیوانه (Bedlam, Berserk, Cuckoo, Demented, Fanatic, Fey, Gaga, Harebrained, Insane, Loco, Loony, Lunatic, Mad, Madbrained, Madcap, Manic, Natural, Nut, Nutty, Psychotic). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hullu (insane, lunatic, mad, nuts). (various references)

   

French

  

fou (crazed, cretin). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

sljochtsinnich (insane, mad, nuts), dwylsinnich (insane, mad, nuts), dûm (insane, mad, nuts). (various references)

   

German

  

verrückt (Batty, crack-brained, crazily, daft, daisy, demented, dementedly, insane, insanely, kinky, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, mentally unbalanced, mind-boggling, nuts, potty, psycho, raving, scatty, screwy, unbalanced, wackily, wacky, whimsical, wild, zany), toll (beautiful, brill, fancy, fantastic, furious, goody, great, groovy, insane, jazzy, mad, madcap, magic, magical, nuts, pippin, rabid, raving, stunning, wild, yummy), übergeschnappt (crackers, haywire, mental), wahnsinnig (brilliant, crazed, delirious, deliriously, demented, frantic, frenzied, incredibly, insane, lunatic, mad, madly, maniac, maniacal, nuts, psychotically, raving, terrific), irre (confused, crack-brained, crazed, demented, freak, funky, insane, loony, lost, lunatic, mad, madman, madwoman, maniac, mentally unbalanced, mind-bending, mind-blowing, morons, muddled, nuts, unbalanced, wild, wrong). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παλαβόσ (barmy, crackpot, daft, dare devil, flighty, mad, nutty), τρελόσ (crack-brained, cuckoo, daft, demented, distraught, haywire, lunatical, mad, madding, screw-ball), τρελός (mad), τρελούτσικος. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

משוגע (insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, scatty), מטורף (loon, lunatic, mad, nutty, possessed), לא שפוי בדעתו (demented, insane, not all there, out of his senses), שגעוני (insane, loony, mad, manic). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rozoga (Dickey, dicky, dilapidated, ramshackle, rattletrap, rickety, shaky, tumble down, tumble-down, wonky), düledező (decaying, dilapidated, ramshackle, ruinous, shaky, tumble-down), bolond (batty, berk, bonkers, coxcomb, cracked, crackpot, crazed, daft, dement, demented, dippy, droll, fool, foolish, goofy, hare-brained, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, nutter, nutty, off the beam, ratty, scatty, screwy, to be not such a fool as people make out, to be nuts, to be up the pole, up the pole), bogaras (buggy, crazed, dorky, eccentric, fanciful, have a little finger ache, kinky, maggoty). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

tala í óráði (act crazy, rave). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sinting, miring (askew, aslant, awry, bias, cant, careen, oblique, slanting, sloping, wry), gila (daft, demented, frenzy, insane, luny, mad), edan (frantic, insane, mad, wild), dol (damaged, mad). (various references)

   

Irish

  

dÚsachtach (insane, nuts). (various references)

   

Italian

  

matto (dull, false, imitation, insane, loco, loony, Loopy, lunatic, mad, madman, madwoman, Matt, moonstricken, moony, nut, nuts, nutty, screwy), pazzo (Batty, bedlamite, distracted, fool, frenzied, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, madman, madmen, maniac, maniacal, moony, off one's rocker, potty, raving, screwy, wacky, wild). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

逆噴射 (reverse thrust), 突拍子も無い (astounding, exorbitant, tremendous), 突拍子もない (astounding, exorbitant, tremendous), 狂った, クリプトコッカス症 (chloroform, Chloromycetin, claim, claimant, claimer, clay, clay court, clay pigeon, climograph, clinch, crane, crater, creatinine clearance, crepe, crepe shirt, crew, crimson, cross sign, crouton, cruise, cruiser, cruising, cryptococcosis, customer complaint, Krugerrand, krypton, Kurd, Kurdish). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎゃくふんしゃ (reverse thrust), クレージー , とっぴょうしもない (astounding, exorbitant, tremendous). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

미친 (insane, mad). (various references)

   

Malay

  

gila (fool, insane, mad, nuts). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sproghit (flaming angry, infuriated, vexed), keoie (fiery, frenetic, frenzied, furious, insane, lunatic, maniac, savage, vicious, wild, wild as person), corragh (chequered, chequered as career, eccentric, erratic, falling, hectic, infirm, irresolute, jerry-built, rocky place, sensitive, skittish, troubled, troubled of period, unbalanced, unbalanced of mind, uneven, uneven as temper, wobbly), carragh (carious, rocky, rough, scab, scurfy, scurvy). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

sprø (brittle, crisp, freaky, odd, peculiar, strange). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

baug. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

loko (insane, mad, nuts). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

azycray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

louco (brain sick, bughouse, crack-brained, crazed, delirious, demented, distraught, far gone, fey, fool, foolish, frenetic, insane, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, maniacal, nuts, phrenetic, raving, wacky). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

crãpat (broken, chopped, choppy, cleft, cracked, rimose, shaky, split, splitting), nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, distracted, distraught, extravagant, fool, foolish, frantic, frenzied, infatuated, insane, lunatic, mad, mad about, madcap, madman, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, raving, reckless, unruly, wild), dement (demented, insane, mad, madman, raving), dezechilibrat (distempered, unbalanced, unhinged), din bucãţi neregulate, excentric (bizarre, crackpot, cranky, crotchety, eccentric, extravagant, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, lunatic, maggot, nut, odd, oddity, original, queer, tappet), extravagant (cracked, eccentric, exaggerated, extravagant, fancy, lunatic, rampant, unreasonable, wanton, wildcat), ahtiat (keen), nãuc (bewildered, blockhead, dumbfounded, dunderhead, flurried, foolish, giddy, silly), tulburat (anxious, confused, dim, distempered, distracted, excited, keyed, ruffled, stormy, turbid, uneasy, worried), nebunesc (desperate, foolish, insensate, lunatic, mad, madman's, nonsensical, reckless, wild), orb (blind, dim, headlong, reckless, sightless, unenlightened, unseeing), prostesc (anile, fatuous, flim-flam, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, idle, insensate, nonsensical, silly, stupid, witless), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), smintit (Batty, cracked, mad, moon-struck, off one's dot, scatty, screw-ball), supãrat foc, mânios (angry, black-browed, furious, furiously, high, hot, in warm blood, infuriated, ireful, out of temper, waxy, wrathful, wroth). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

безумный (demented, insane, mad, nuts, off one's head). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poludeo (berserk, mind: out of one's mind), ludački (berserker, foolish, madman), lud (berserk, bonkers, buggy, daft, demented, distraught, head: off his head, insane, loco, lunatic, mad, nut, nut: off one's nut, nuts), šenuo (rocker), šašav (cracked, crackers, daft, gaga, goofy, loony). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

loco (amok, amuck, barmy, bonkers, bugs, crack-brained, cracky, crazed, daft, demented, deranged, distraught, dunce, fogey, half wit, haywire, hectic, idiot, jenny ass, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, mad, madman, nutty, out of one's mind, round the bend, up the pole, wall eyed, wet, whacky, wild, zany). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

law (insane, mad, nuts). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

galen (absurd, bedlamite, distracted, distraught, insane, loco, loony, mad, madcap, nuts, passionately fond, rabid, up the creek, up the pole, wild, wrong), vriden (batty, insane, mad, nuts, twisted), tokig (barmy, Batty, bonkers, cock eyed, cockeyed, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, Dotty, fruity, gaga, insane, loony, mad, madcap, moony, nuts, ridiculous, touched, wrong), stollig (insane, Loopy, mad, nuts, zany). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

balíw (insane, mad, nuts). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

salak (country bumpkin, cretin, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dope, dopey, fool, gullible, idiot, jerky, ninny, obtuse, silly, stupid, sucker), mecnun, karmaşık (complicated), derme çatma (hastily put up, jerry built, patchy, rambling, scrappy, scratch, scratchy), deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, daft, delirious, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, madman, madwoman, meshuggah, not all there, nutcase, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, phrenetic, possessed, potty, touched), aptalca (fatuously, fondly, foolish, foolishly, footling, half-baked, idiotic, ill-considered, inept, stupidly), çılgın (berserk, bonkers, crackpot, crazed, delirious, demented, demon, demoniac, desperado, distracted, foolhardy, frenetic, frenzied, insane, kook, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, moonstruck, nut, phrenetic, possessed, raving, rip roaring, ripsnorter, scatty, wild), çıldırmış (bereft of reason, bereft of senses, distraught, frantic, insane). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

telbe (mad), dдli. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

схиблений (crazed, crazy about, mad, maniac, maniacal, nuts), хиткий (dicky, rickety, sandyish, shaky, tottery, wabbly, waggly, weak, wobbly, wonky), ветхий (decrepit, dilapidated), недоумкуватий (ament, anile, batchy, changeling, crack-brained, crackpot, cracky, cretinous, daft, doddery, feeble minded, foolish, half wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, weak-minded), божевільний (addle-brained, addle-pated, batchy, bedlam, brainsick, crack-brained, crackpot, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, frenetic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, non compos, nuts, nutty, possessed, rabid, scatty), безумний, безглуздий (absurd, addle-brained, addle-pated, barmy, blind, brainless, brute, crack-brained, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, impertinent, insane, ludicrous, meaningless, nail biting, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, senseless, wanton, wet). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sàn nhà, quá say mê mất trí, khập khiễng (limpingly, rickety), điên dại xộc xệch, đồ đạc (craziness, gear). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

chokow pol (insane, mad, nuts). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Crazy

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

amens, astrosus, baccati, cerebrosus, Ceritus, Cerritus, demens, dementasset, dementes, rabidus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Crazy

Derivations

Words beginning with "crazy": crazyweed, crazyweeds. (additional references)

Words ending with "crazy": uncrazy. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Crazy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carozzi, Carzo, carzy, cazi, ceaz, Clazie, craby, cracy, craky, crasie, crasy, craza, crazey, crevy, crey, crez, criz, crizi, croxy, cruzi, Curazzo, Karzay, krasny, Krasnyy, krazy, krazzy, Kryazh, Razzy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Crazy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "crazy" (pronounced krā"zē)
3-ā" z ēDaisy, lazy, hazy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Crazy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-r-y-z"

-1 letter: czar, racy.

-2 letters: arc, car, cay, cry, ray, rya, yar.

-3 letters: ar, ay, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-r-y-z"
 

+1 letter: coryza.

 

+2 letters: coryzal, coryzas, crazily, uncrazy.

 

+4 letters: catalyzer, crazyweed.

 

+5 letters: catalyzers, crazyweeds, crystalize, mycorrhiza.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Company Usage
16. Expressions
17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Translations: Ancient
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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