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Definition: Crazy |
CrazyAdjective1. 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". Noun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | English (postal), Japanese (baka ). (references) |
Slang | Postal. (references) |
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(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."
Synonyms: CrazySynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Crazy |
| English words defined with "crazy": apologise, apologize ♦ Crack-brained, craze ♦ Delirament, dotty ♦ enamored, excuse ♦ gaga ♦ half-baked, hold, Horn-mad ♦ in love, in the bonnet, infatuated ♦ justify ♦ kook ♦ Lune, Luny ♦ Mad, madden, meshuga, meshugge, meshuggener ♦ odd fellow, odd fish, odd man out ♦ queer bird, queer duck ♦ rationalise, rationalize ♦ screwball, smitten, soft on, softheaded ♦ take hold, taken with. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crazy": Amina ♦ Develment ♦ Half a bubble off ♦ Kaled, Kook, kooky ♦ off the handle ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Rodolpho ♦ THAW. (references) |
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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) | |
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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. | ||
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| "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." |
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| Echoing laugh of a crazy man. | |
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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. |
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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. |
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Economic History | Bahrain | Thirteen international rides and games featured will include the crazy river game, slides and wave pool. (references) |
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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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.69% | 1,724 | 4,876 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.97% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Noun (common) | 0.34% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,783 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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| USA | Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 | 癲 (convulsions), 發狂 (mad, madly), 瘨 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | amens, astrosus, baccati, cerebrosus, Ceritus, Cerritus, demens, dementasset, dementes, rabidus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crazy": crazyweed, crazyweeds. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "crazy": uncrazy. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crazy" (pronounced krā"zē) |
| 3 | -ā" z ē | Daisy, lazy, hazy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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