crazy

English

Etymology

From craze +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹeɪ.zi/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæɪ̯zi/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪzi

Adjective

crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)

1. Of unsound mind; insane; demented. [from 17th c.]

   His ideas were both frightening and crazy.

   • 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:

     Those words appearing to be merely the ravings of superannuation, they were not regarded; but when no other traces of Mary could be found, old Andrew went up to consult this crazy dame once more, but he was not able to bring any such thing to her recollection.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

   • 1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses‎^[1]:

     Now think of all the years you tried to
     Find someone to satisfy you
     I might be as crazy as you say
     If I'm crazy then it's true
     That it's all because of you
     And you wouldn't want me any other way

   • 2018, Ava Max, Madison Love, Tix, Cook Classics, Cirkut (lyrics and music), “Sweet but Psycho”, in Heaven & Hell‎^[2], performed by Ava Max:

     Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"

2. Out of control.

   When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.

3. Very excited or enthusiastic.

   He went crazy when he won.

   • 1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?:

     The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.

4. In love; experiencing romantic feelings.

   Why is she so crazy about him?

5. (informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.

   The game had a crazy ending.

6. (obsolete) Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 203:

     Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     Piles of mean and crazy houses.

   • 1816, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Madame de Larochejaquelein”, in The Edinburgh Review February 1816:

     They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

     Casement windows opened, crazy doors were unbarred, and people came forth shivering—chilled, as yet, by the new sweet air.

7. (obsolete) Sickly, frail; diseased. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:

     Over moist and crazy brains.

   • 1710 March 28 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, March 17, 1709–1710”, in The Spectator, number 15; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin, published 1990, page 61:

     My poor aunt has often told me […] how long she herself was apprehensive lest my crazy frame, which is now of common shape, should remain for ever crooked and deformed.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:insane

Derived terms

• boy crazy
• boy-crazy
• bureaucrazy
• covid-crazy
• cray
• craze
• crazily
• craziness
• crazing
• crazo
• crazy ant
• crazy as a bedbug
• crazy as a cootie
• crazy as a cootie bug
• crazy as a fox
• crazy as a pet coon
• crazy as a shithouse rat
• crazy as a soup sandwich
• crazy-ass
• crazy bone
• crazy bread
• crazy cake
• crazy carpet
• crazy eight
• crazy eights
• crazy glue
• crazy golf
• crazy golfer
• crazyhead
• crazyhouse
• crazyish
• crazyitis
• crazy like a fox
• crazy mad
• crazymaker
• crazymaking
• crazy man in the bottle
• crazy-pants
• crazy pants
• crazy-pated
• crazy-paved
• crazy paving
• crazy quilt
• crazyquilted
• crazysauce
• crazy straw
• crazy up
• crazyweed
• crunk
• democrazy
• drive someone crazy
• ecocrazy
• girl crazy
• go crazy
• let crazy stick its dick in you
• like crazy
• noncrazy
• outcrazy
• plumb crazy
• so crazy it just might work
• so crazy it might just work
• stick one's dick in crazy
• stir crazy
• stir-crazy
• uncrazy
• yellow crazy ant

 

Collocations

Collocations

• little crazy
• half crazy
• really crazy
• completely crazy
• absolutely crazy
• totally crazy
• truly crazy

Translations

insane, demented

• Albanian: i çmendur (sq)
• Amharic: እብድ (ʾəbd)
• Arabic: مَجْنُون (ar) (majnūn), مَخْبُول (maḵbūl), مَسْعُور (ar) (masʕūr), أَحْمَق (ʔaḥmaq)

  Chadian Arabic: مشوطن (mušōtin)

  Moroccan Arabic: حمق (ḥmaq), مسطي (msaṭṭi), هبيل (hbīl)

• Armenian: խենթ (hy) (xentʻ), խելագար (hy) (xelagar), գիժ (hy) (giž)
• Azerbaijani: dəli (az)
• Basque: zoro, ero
• Belarusian: шалёны (šaljóny), бязу́мны (bjazúmny)
• Bengali: দেওয়ানা (bn) (deōẇana), পাগল (bn) (pagol), মজনু (bn) (mojonu)
• Bisaya: buang
• Bulgarian: луд (bg) (lud), побъ́ркан (bg) (pobǎ́rkan)
• Burmese: နှမ်း (my) (hnam:)
• Catalan: boig (ca), foll (ca)
• Cebuano: buang
• Chickasaw: haksi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 癡線／痴线 (yue) (ci¹ sin³), 癲／癫 (din¹)

  Mandarin: 瘋狂／疯狂 (zh) (fēngkuáng), 瘋／疯 (zh) (fēng)

• Czech: šílený (cs), pominutý, trhlý, potrhlý, zbavený rozumu, ztřeštěný, bláznivý (cs)
• Danish: skør, sindssyg (da), sindsforvirret, gal (da), gakgak
• Dutch: zot (nl), gek (nl), getikt (nl), gestoord (nl), krankjorum (nl), geschift (nl)
• Esperanto: freneza (eo)
• Estonian: hull (et)
• Finnish: hullu (fi), mieletön (fi), järjetön (fi), kaheli (fi)
• French: fou (fr), insensé (fr), avoir une araignée au plafond (fr), chtarbé (fr), dérangé (fr), dingo (fr), taré (fr)
• Galician: tolo (gl) m, doudo m, louco (gl) m
• Georgian: შეშლილი (šešlili), გადარეული (gadareuli), გიჟი (giži), არანორმალური (aranormaluri), შეურაცხადი (šeuracxadi)
• German: verrückt (de)
• Greek: τρελός (el) m (trelós)

  Ancient: μανιώδης (maniṓdēs)

• Hawaiian: pupule
• Hebrew: מְטוֹרָף (he) (metoráf), מְשׁוּגָע (he) (meshugá)
• Higaonon: buang
• Hindi: पागल (hi) (pāgal), दीवाना (hi) (dīvānā)
• Hungarian: bolond (hu), őrült (hu), kattant (hu)
• Icelandic: brjálaður (is)
• Ilocano: bagtit, balla, antutit, ambagel, agmuyot, ammangaw, kuwatit, mauyong, alloy, attit, talpeng, appat, allot, tiwel, alintaweng, ambreng, ullog, murtit, ketit, bultik
• Indonesian: gila (id)
• Ingrian: hullu
• Irish: seafóideach
• Italian: pazzo (it), matto (it), folle (it)
• Japanese: 気が狂った (きがくるった, ki ga kurutta), 頭がおかしい (あたまがおかしい, atama ga okashii)
• Kapampangan: murit, moret
• Kazakh: ақылсыз (aqylsyz), есалаң (esalañ)
• Khmer: ឆ្កួត (km) (chkuət), លលាតែ (lĕəʼliə tae), ឧម្មត្តកៈ (ʼummattaʼkaʼ) (formal)
• Korean: 미치다 (ko) (michida)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dîn (ku), bêhiş (ku)

• Kyrgyz: жинди (ky) (jindi)
• Ladino: loko, budala
• Latgalian: troks
• Latin: dēlīrus, vēcors, insānus (la)
• Latvian: traks, ārprātīgs, vājprātīgs
• Leonese: llocu
• Lithuanian: pamišęs
• Louisiana Creole French: fou m, fòl f, pa tou la, takala
• Macedonian: луд (lud)
• Malagasy: adala (mg)
• Malay: gila (ms)
• Maltese: miġnun m
• Maori: pōrewharewha, heahea, rorirori, wairangi, pōrangi, pōrewarewa
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: солиотой (mn) (soliotoj), галзуу (mn) (galzuu)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: galen, gal (no), gæren (no), sinnsyk (no)

• Occitan: baug (oc), fòl (oc)
• Ottoman Turkish: دلی (deli), مجنون (mecnun)
• Pashto: لېونی (ps) (lewanay), مجنون (ps) (majnǔn)
• Persian: دیوانه (fa) (divâne), مجنون (fa) (majnun)
• Plautdietsch: domm, errsennich
• Polish: szalony (pl), obłąkany (pl)
• Portuguese: louco (pt), maluco (pt), doido (pt)
• Romanian: nebun (ro) m, înnebunit (ro), tulburat (ro)
• Russian: сумасше́дший (ru) (sumasšédšij), безу́мный (ru) (bezúmnyj), умалишённый (ru) (umališónnyj), поме́шанный (ru) (poméšannyj), чо́кнутый (ru) (čóknutyj), спя́тивший (ru) (spjátivšij), неадеква́тный (ru) (neadɛkvátnyj), ошале́вший (ru) (ošalévšij), ненорма́льный (ru) (nenormálʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: craicte, às a chiall (3rd person singular masculine, see entry for other persons)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лу̑д, бѐзӯман

  Roman: lȗd (sh), bèzūman (sh)

• Slovak: bláznivý, šialený
• Slovene: nor (sl), blazen
• Somali: xuuf
• Spanish: loco (es), colgado (es), sonado (es), trastornado (es), tronado (es), gagá (es), zumbado (es) (Spain), orate (es), chalado (es), tarambana (es)
• Sranan Tongo: law
• Sundanese: gélo
• Swedish: galen (sv), tok (sv), tokig (sv), sinnessjuk (sv), vansinnig (sv)
• Tagalog: (literally) baliw (tl), loko (tl)
• Tajik: девона (tg) (devona), маҷнун (majnun), ҷиннӣ (jinni)
• Thai: บ้า (th) (bâa)
• Turkish: aptal (tr), deli (tr), manyak (tr), kaçık (tr) (informal), üşütük (tr) (informal)
• Turkmen: däli
• Tày: bả, pền bả
• Ukrainian: божеві́льний (uk) (boževílʹnyj), безу́мний (uk) (bezúmnyj), шале́ний (šalényj)
• Urdu: پاگل (pāgal), دیوانہ (dīvānā)
• Uzbek: jinni (uz)
• Vietnamese: điên (vi), điên rồ (vi), cuồng (vi), khùng (vi)
• Volapük: lienetik (vo)
• Welsh: gwallgof (cy), ynfyd (cy), gorffwyll (cy), lloerig (cy)
• Zhuang: bag

out of control

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: boig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 癲／癫 (din¹), 癡線／痴线 (yue) (ci¹ sin³)

  Mandarin: 瘋／疯 (zh) (fēng), 瘋狂／疯狂 (zh) (fēngkuáng)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hullu (fi), villi (fi), kaheli (fi), kahjo (fi)
• French: fou (fr)
• Georgian: უმართავი (umartavi)
• German: verrückt (de)
• Greek: τρελός (el) m (trelós)
• Hungarian: megőrül (hu), elmegy az esze, elborul az agya
• Italian: impazzito (it), fuori di testa
• Khmer: ឆ្កួត (km) (chkuət), ឈ្លក់ (km) (chlŭək)
• Korean: 미치다 (ko) (michida)
• Latvian: traks
• Leonese: llocu
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зүггүй (züggüj)

• Pashto: لېونی (ps) (lewanay)
• Portuguese: louco (pt), doido (pt)
• Romanian: nebun (ro), necontrolat (ro)
• Russian: сумасше́дший (ru) (sumasšédšij), безу́мный (ru) (bezúmnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: craicte, às a chiall (3rd person singular masculine, see entry for other persons)
• Spanish: loco (es), desquiciado (es)
• Thai: คลั่ง (th) (klâng)
• Turkish: çılgın (tr)
• Tày: bả, pền bả
• Vietnamese: mất kiểm soát, điên rồ (vi)

very excited

• Italian: fantastico (it), pazzesco (it), incredibile (it)
• Latvian: traks
• Spanish: venático m, ideoso m, ideático (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} marrë (sq)
• Betawi: ^{(please verify)} gokil
• Chamicuro: ^{(please verify)} matitu
• Czech: ^{(please verify)} šílený (cs), ^{(please verify)} pominutý, ^{(please verify)} trhlý, ^{(please verify)} potrhlý, ^{(please verify)} zbavený rozumu, ^{(please verify)} ztřeštěný, ^{(please verify)} bláznivý (cs)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} gek (nl)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} משוגע (he) m (meshuga), ^{(please verify)} משוגעת f (meshuga'at)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} पागल (hi) (pāgal), ^{(please verify)} दिवाना (hi) (divānā)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} gila (id)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 頭のおかしい (atama no okashii)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} شێت (ckb) (şêt)

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} gal (no), ^{(please verify)} galen, ^{(please verify)} gæren (no), ^{(please verify)} sinnsyk (no), ^{(please verify)} sprø, ^{(please verify)} vanvittig (no)
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} دیوانه (fa) (divâne), ^{(please verify)} مجنون (fa) (majnun)
• Pitjantjatjara: ^{(please verify)} rama
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} nor (sl)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} stollig (sv)
• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} baliw (tl)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} పిచ్చి (te) (picci)
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} پاگل (pāgal), ^{(please verify)} دیوانہ (divāna)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} điên (vi), ^{(please verify)} khùng (vi)
• West Frisian: ^{(please verify)} gek

Adverb

crazy (comparative more crazy, superlative most crazy)

1. (slang) Very, extremely.

   That trick was crazy good.

   • 2002, Gina Riley, Jane Turner, That's Unusual: Scripts from Kath and Kim, Series 2, page 67:

     I'm flat out. It's crazy stupid here, Kim.

Translations

very, extremely

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sykt (no), sinnssykt (no), sjukt, sinnssjukt

  Nynorsk: sjukt, sinnsssjukt

• Polish: mega (pl)
• Russian: обалде́нно (ru) (obaldénno), офиге́нно (ru) (ofigénno)
• Swedish: sjukt (sv)

Noun

crazy (countable and uncountable, plural crazies)

1. (slang, countable) An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?

2. (slang, uncountable) Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.
   • 2013, Douglas Schwartz, Checkered Scissors, page 211:

     Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do.

Synonyms

• (insane or eccentric person): lunatic, mad man, nut ball, nut case, nutso, psychopath

Translations

an insane or eccentric person

• Bashkir: иҫәр (iśər), диуана (diwana), алйот (alyot), тиле (tile), йүләр (yülər), тинтәк (tintək), һантый (hantıy)
• Bulgarian: смахнат (bg) (smahnat), побъркан (bg) (pobǎrkan)
• Catalan: boig (ca) m
• Czech: šílenec (cs) m, blázen (cs) m
• Finnish: hullu (fi), mielipuoli (fi)
• French: fou (fr) m, folle (fr) f
• Irish: duine buile m, gealt f
• Khmer: ដំណើប (km) (dɑmnaəp), ចំកួត (cɑmkuət)
• Ngarrindjeri: wurangi
• Norwegian: galning m, gærning m
• Pashto: لېونی (ps) m (lewanay), لېونۍ f (lewanëy)
• Polish: świr (pl) m, dziwak (pl) m, wariat (pl) m
• Portuguese: louco (pt) m
• Punjabi: बेवकूफ
• Romanian: nebun (ro) m, nebună (ro) f, sonat m, sonată (ro) f
• Russian: сумасше́дший (ru) m (sumasšédšij), поме́шанный (ru) m (poméšannyj), псих (ru) m (psix) (slang), неадеква́т (ru) m (neadekvát) (slang)
• Spanish: venático m, ideoso m
• Turkish: manyak (tr), zibidi (tr)

See also

• crazy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia