crazy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: cra=zy

CIDE DICTIONARY

crazy, a. [From Craze.].

•  Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.  [1913 Webster]

  "Piles of mean andcrazy houses."  [1913 Webster]

  "One of great riches, but a crazy constitution."  [1913 Webster]

  "They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island."  [1913 Webster]
•  Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.  [1913 Webster]

  "Over moist and crazy brains."  [1913 Webster]
•  Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.  [1913 Webster]

  "The girls were crazy to be introduced to him."  [1913 Webster]

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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crazy, adj. (crazier, craziest)
1 colloq. (of a person, an action, etc.) insane or mad; foolish.
2 colloq. (usu. foll. by about) extremely enthusiastic.
3 sl. a exciting, unrestrained. b excellent.
4 (attrib.) (of paving, a quilt, etc.) made of irregular pieces fitted together.
5 archaic (of a ship, building, etc.) unsound, shaky.

Idiom

crazy bone US the funny bone. like crazy colloq. = like mad (see MAD).

Derivative

crazily adv. craziness n.

THESAURUS

crazy

abnormal, absurd, anamorphous, ape, apish, arrested, asinine, askew, asymmetric, avid, babbling, backward, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, befooled, beguiled, bent, bereft of reason, besotted, beyond belief, bicolor, bicolored, big, bizarre, blithering, bonkers, bowed, brainless, brainsick, buffoonish, burbling, certifiable, cockamamie, cockeyed, colorful, colory, contorted, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crackpot, crazed, credulous, cretinistic, cretinous, crooked, crumpled, crunched, cuckoo, daedal, daffy, daft, damned, dazed, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, deviative, dichromatic, dippy, disoriented, distorted, distraught, dithering, divers-colored, dizzy, doting, dotty, dreadful, driveling, drooling, dumb, eager, enthusiastic, erratic, excited, extravagant, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, flaked-out, flaky, flighty, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, grotesque, gulled, half-baked, half-witted, hallucinated, harebrained, harlequin, high-flown, idiotic, ill-considered, imbecile, imbecilic, impracticable, impractical, imprudent, inane, incredible, inept, infatuated, insane, irrational, irregular, kaleidoscopic, keen, keen on, kooky, labyrinthine, larruping, laughable, lawful, loco, loony, lopsided, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, maddened, main, maniac, manic, many-colored, maudlin, maundering, mazed, medley, mental, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, meshuggah, mongoloid, monstrous, moon-struck, moonstruck, moronic, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, non compos, non compos mentis, nonsensical, nonsymmetric, not all there, not right, nuts, nutty, odd, of unsound mind, off, one-sided, outrageous, outre, parti-color, parti-colored, pointless, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, poppycockish, possessed, potty, preposterous, prismal, psycho, queer, rash, reasonless, reckless, retarded, ridiculous, risible, round the bend, sappy, screwball, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shot, shot through, sick, silly, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, spectral, sprung, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stupid, subnormal, tetched, thoughtless, thunder and lightning, tortuous, touched, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, twisted, two-tone, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unsymmetric, unworkable, varicolored, variegated, versicolor, versicolored, wacky, wandering, warped, weird, wet, wild, witless, zealous

ROGET THESAURUS

crazy

Weakness

N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.

Insanity

N insanity, disordered reason, disordered intellect, diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind, derangement, unsoundness, psychosis, neurosis, cognitive disorder, affective disorder, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration, paranoia, schizophrenia, dementation, dementia, demency, phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain, delusion, hallucination, lycanthropy, brain storm, vertigo, dizziness, swimming, sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis, fanaticism, infatuation, craze, oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice), kleptodipsomania, hypochondriasis, melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression, hysteria, amentia, screw loose, tile loose, slate loose, bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story, dotage, 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, shatterpated, mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained, touched, tetched, off one's head, maniacal, delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering, frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk, delusional, hallucinatory, corybantic, dithyrambic, rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild, haggard, mazed, flighty, distracted, distraught, depressed, agitated, hyped up, bewildered, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, of unsound mind, touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story, out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits, not in one's right mind, fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric, hypped, hyppish, spaced out, imbecile, silly, like one possessed, the mind having lost its balance, the reason under a cloud, tet exaltee, tet montee, ira furor brevis est, omnes stultos insanire.

Madman

N madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, candidate for Bedlam, raver, madcap, crazy, energumen, automaniac, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac, hypochondriac (low spirits), crank, Tom o'Bedlam, dreamer, rhapsodist, seer, highflier, enthusiast, fanatic, fanatico, exalte, knight errant, Don Quixote, idiot.