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Etymology

From craze (“to crush”) +‎ -yCategory:English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival)#CRAZY, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”), crackpot.

Compare typologically Russian чо́кнутый (čóknutyj).

Pronunciation

enPR: krāzē, (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹeɪ.zi/Category:English 2-syllable words#CRAZY Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CRAZY
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæɪ.zi/Category:English 2-syllable words#CRAZY Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CRAZY
Audio (US): (file)
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Rhymes: -eɪzi Category:Rhymes:English/eɪzi#CRAZY Category:Rhymes:English/eɪzi/2 syllables#CRAZY
Hyphenation: cra‧zy

Adjective

crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)Category:English lemmas#CRAZY Category:English adjectives#CRAZY Category:English entries with incorrect language header#CRAZY Category:Pages with entries#CRAZY Category:Pages with 2 entries#CRAZY

Of unsound mind; insane; demented. [from 17th c.]
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane

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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses‎:
  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
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- 2018, Ava Max, Madison Love, Tix, Cook Classics, Cirkut, “Sweet but Psycho”, in Heaven & Hell‎, performed by Ava Max:
  Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"
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Out of control.
When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.Category:English terms with usage examples#CRAZY
Very excited or enthusiastic.
He went crazy when he won.Category:English terms with usage examples#CRAZY
- 1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?:
  The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
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- 2020 January 8, Nikhil Krishnan, “Six of the world's most thrilling road trips for 2020”, in The Daily Telegraph‎:
  The craziest, most extraordinary banger race on the planet: 10,000+ miles from Prague to Siberia.
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In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
Why is she so crazy about him?Category:English terms with usage examples#CRAZY
(informal Category:English informal terms#CRAZY) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
Near-synonym: amazing

crazy workCategory:English terms with collocations#CRAZY

The game had a crazy ending.Category:English terms with usage examples#CRAZY
- 2010 May 27, Judy Astley, Blowing It: a brilliantly funny, mad-cap novel guaranteed to make you laugh from bestselling author Judy Astley, Random House, →ISBN, page 287:
  […] at all, just a vast space of desert out in the saltlands of Nevada. It's serious dressing up, the maddest entertainment, craziest art, and at the end there's the burning of a huge effigy, stuffed with pyrotechnics 287.
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- 2018 August 7, “Save us from another kooky California breakup plan”, in The Los Angeles Times:
  We'd like to think such a kooky idea has no shot at getting on the ballot, like the previous attempts by the two main Calexiters — Marcus Ruiz Evans and Louis J. Marinelli — to get some sort of secession proposal on the ballot. But crazier things have happened.
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- 2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 2 August 2025:
  “It’s been a long process and I’ve come close to giving up along the way, but this is undoubtedly the craziest archaeological excavation I’ve yet been part of,” Bloch said in the news release.
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(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#CRAZY) 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.
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- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
  Piles of mean and crazy houses.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#CRAZY) Sickly, frail; diseased. [16th–19th c.]
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
  Over moist and crazy brains.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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Derived terms

Collocations

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

Translations

insane, demented

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out of control

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Armenian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Armenian#CRAZY
Catalan: boig (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#CRAZY
Chinese:
Cantonese: 癲 / 癫 (din¹)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#CRAZY Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#CRAZY, 癡線 / 痴线 (yue) (ci¹ sin³)Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#CRAZY

Mandarin: 瘋 / 疯 (zh) (fēng)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CRAZY Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CRAZY, 瘋狂 / 疯狂 (zh) (fēngkuáng)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CRAZY Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CRAZY
Esperanto: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Esperanto#CRAZY
Finnish: hullu (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CRAZY, villi (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CRAZY, kaheli (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CRAZY, kahjo (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CRAZY
French: fou (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#CRAZY
Georgian: უმართავი (umartavi)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CRAZY
German: verrückt (de)Category:Terms with German translations#CRAZY
Greek: τρελός (el) m (trelós)Category:Terms with Greek translations#CRAZY
Hungarian: megőrül (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#CRAZY, elmegy az eszeCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#CRAZY, elborul az agyaCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#CRAZY
Italian: impazzito (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#CRAZY, fuori di testaCategory:Terms with Italian translations#CRAZY
Khmer: ឆ្កួត (km) (chkuət)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#CRAZY, ឈ្លក់ (km) (chlŭək)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#CRAZY
Korean: 미치다 (ko) (michida)Category:Terms with Korean translations#CRAZY
Latvian: traksCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#CRAZY
Leonese: llocuCategory:Terms with Leonese translations#CRAZY
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зүггүй (züggüj)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#CRAZY
Pashto: لېونی (ps) (lewanay)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#CRAZY
Portuguese: louco (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#CRAZY, doido (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#CRAZY
Romanian: nebun (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#CRAZY, necontrolat (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#CRAZY
Russian: сумасше́дший (ru) (sumasšédšij)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CRAZY, безу́мный (ru) (bezúmnyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CRAZY
Scottish Gaelic: craicteCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#CRAZY, às a chiallCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#CRAZY (3rd person singular masculine, see entry for other persons)
Spanish: loco (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#CRAZY, desquiciado (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#CRAZY, creisiCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CRAZY (Latin America)
Swedish: ur kontrollCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#CRAZY
Tày: bảCategory:Terms with Tày translations#CRAZY, pền bảCategory:Terms with Tày translations#CRAZY
Thai: คลั่ง (th) (klâng)Category:Terms with Thai translations#CRAZY
Turkish: çılgın (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#CRAZY
Vietnamese: mất kiểm soátCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#CRAZY, điên rồ (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#CRAZY

very excited

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