Crazy Meaning
/ˈkɹeɪ.zi/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf unsound mind; insane; demented.
adjOut of control.
Sentence Examples
Most people think I'm crazy.
How did you come up with this crazy idea?
Are you crazy? We could get killed doing that.
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His ____ idea involved building a rocket in the backyard shed.
Word Origin & History
From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”), crackpot. Compare typologically Russian чо́кнутый (čóknutyj).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
"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."
— 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
"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"
— 1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses:
"Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away""
— 2018, Ava Max, Madison Love, Tix, Cook Classics, Cirkut, “Sweet but Psycho”, in Heaven & Hell, performed by Ava Max:
"The girls were crazy to be introduced to him."
— 1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?:
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His ____ idea involved building a rocket in the backyard shed.