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Crazy   /krˈeɪzi/   Listen
Crazy

adjective
1.
Affected with madness or insanity.  Synonyms: brainsick, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged.
2.
Foolish; totally unsound.  Synonyms: half-baked, screwball, softheaded.  "Half-baked ideas" , "A screwball proposal without a prayer of working"
3.
Possessed by inordinate excitement.  "Was crazy to try his new bicycle"
4.
Bizarre or fantastic.  "Wore a crazy hat"
5.
Intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with.  Synonyms: dotty, gaga, wild.  "He is potty about her"
noun
1.
Someone deranged and possibly dangerous.  Synonyms: looney, loony, nutcase, weirdo.



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"Crazy" Quotes from Famous Books



... woman! what's she up to now? If she's running away from me, she'll wish herself back before she gets far on that road. Why, there's an infernal nest of brigands there that call themselves Garibaldians; and, by thunder, the woman's crazy! They'll be seized and held to ransom—perhaps worse. Heavens! I'll go mad! I'll run and tell them. But no; they won't see me. What'll I do? And Minnie! I can't give her up. She can't give me up. ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille
... said Long Bill Hodge. "What we want is the goods. Dope one of the guards to-night. There's Barnum. He's no good. He beat up that crazy Chink yesterday in Bughouse Alley—when he was off duty, too. He's on the night watch. Dope him to-night an' make him lose his job. Show me, and ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London
... "the prospect is equally unpleasing. Philostratus is setting the people crazy. But the hired mischief-maker will soon wish he had been less ready to seize ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... would at last read of Salvat's arrest. In his state of nervous expectancy, the wild campaign which the press had started, the idiotic and the ferocious things which he found in one or another journal, almost drove him crazy. A number of "suspects" had already been arrested in a kind of chance razzia, which had swept up the usual Anarchist herd, together with sundry honest workmen and bandits, illumines and lazy devils, in fact, a most singular, ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... fancies that he has been in a trance since the time of Noah and the Ark. He has a strange hallucination that he can be awakened from his protracted nap by a kiss from a certain female, whom he describes as Arletta the Beautiful. Although he is as crazy as a loon, yet some of his utterances are really remarkable for the depth of logic they contain. The case has its amusing side also, for every woman by the name of Arletta who visits this hospital cannot resist the temptation of kissing the man, ...
— Born Again • Alfred Lawson


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