Antonyms for crazy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : krey-zee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkreɪ zi |
Definition of crazy
Origin :- 1570s, "diseased, sickly," from craze + -y (2). Meaning "full of cracks or flaws" is from 1580s; that of "of unsound mind, or behaving as so" is from 1610s. Jazz slang sense "cool, exciting" attested by 1927. To drive (someone) crazy is attested by 1873. Phrase crazy like a fox recorded from 1935. Crazy Horse, Teton Lakhota (Siouan) war leader (d.1877) translates thašuka witko, literally "his horse is crazy."
- adj mentally strange
- adj unrealistic, fantastic
- adj infatuated, in love
- He was acting like a crazy boy, and he was a man, all of twenty-two!
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- "I guess you know I've been crazy about him," she said quietly.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- I don't think much of your Lauzanne, he's like a crazy horse.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- I gits half eat by that crazy skate, an' fired without a cent fer it.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- "You are crazy; so do not talk any more," interrupted Hubertine, coldly.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- You needn't speak to me, an' I'll live in the other part; but I shall be crazy if you don't let me do your work.
- Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
- "But it's sure to be him," chattered Simms, his teeth as crazy as his grammar.
- Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- She had been so crazy, she had seen nothing, thought of nothing.
- Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
- For we had crashed by so that the crazy cart must have thrilled in every stick of it.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- If papa were like what you say he is, he'd be—why, he'd be crazy!
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
Synonyms for crazy
- absurd
- ape
- ardent
- balmy
- barmy
- bats in the belfry
- batty
- berserk
- beside oneself
- beyond all reason
- bizarre
- bonkers
- cockeyed
- cracked
- crazed
- cuckoo
- daft
- delirious
- demented
- deranged
- derisory
- devoted
- dingy
- dippy
- eager
- eccentric
- enamored
- erratic
- fanatical
- fatuous
- flaky
- flipped
- flipped out
- foolhardy
- foolish
- freaked out
- fruity
- goofy
- half-baked
- harebrained
- hysterical
- idiotic
- ill-conceived
- impracticable
- imprudent
- inane
- inappropriate
- insane
- irresponsible
- keen
- kooky
- loony
- ludicrous
- lunatic
- mad
- mad as a hatter
- mad as a March hare
- maniacal
- mental
- moonstruck
- nonsensical
- nuts
- nutty
- nutty as fruitcake
- odd
- of unsound mind
- out of all reason
- out of one's mind
- out of one's tree
- out to lunch
- outrageous
- passionate
- peculiar
- potty
- preposterous
- psycho
- puerile
- quixotic
- ridiculous
- round the bend
- schizo
- screw loose
- screwball
- screwy
- senseless
- short-sighted
- silly
- smitten
- strange
- touched
- unbalanced
- unglued
- unhinged
- unworkable
- unzipped
- wacky
- weird
- wild
- zealous
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