Crazy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crazy \Cra"zy\ (kr[=a]"z[y^]), a. [From {Craze}.]
     1. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken;
        falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
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              Piles of mean andcrazy houses.        --Macaulay.


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              One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
                                                    --Addison.
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              They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the
              island.                               --Jeffrey.
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     2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered;
        demented; deranged.
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              Over moist and crazy brains.          --Hudibras.
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     3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.]
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              The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. --R.
                                                    B. Kimball.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crazy
       adj 1: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
              [syn: {brainsick}, {demented}, {distracted}, {disturbed},
               {mad}, {sick}, {unbalanced}, {unhinged}]
       2: foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical solution"; "a
          crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal
          without a prayer of working" [syn: {half-baked}, {screwball},
           {softheaded}]
       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" [syn: {dotty}, {gaga}, {enamored},
           {infatuated}, {in love}, {smitten}, {soft on(p)}, {taken
          with(p)}]
       4: 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: intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy
          about cars and racing"
       n : someone deranged and possibly dangerous [syn: {loony}, {looney},
            {weirdo}]
       [also: {craziest}, {crazier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  239 Moby Thesaurus words for "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