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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRAZY, a.
1. Broken; decrepit; weak; feeble; applied to the body, or constitution, or any structure; as a crazy body; a crazy constitution; a crazy ship.
2. Broken, weakened, or disordered in intellect; deranged, weakened, or shattered in mind. We say, the man is crazy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
2: foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working" [syn: crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded]
3: possessed by inordinate excitement; "the crowd went crazy"; "was crazy to try his new bicycle"
4: bizarre or fantastic; "had a crazy dream"; "wore a crazy hat"
5: intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy about cars and racing"; "he is potty about her" [syn: crazy, wild, dotty, gaga] n
1: someone deranged and possibly dangerous [syn: crazy, loony, looney, nutcase, weirdo]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (crazier; -est) Date: 1566 1. a. full of cracks or flaws ; unsound <they were very crazy, wretched cabins — Charles Dickens> b. crooked, askew 2. a. mad, insane <yelling like a crazy man> b. (1) impractical <a crazy plan> (2) erratic <crazy drivers> c. being out of the ordinary ; unusual <a taste for crazy hats> 3. a. distracted with desire or excitement <a thrill-crazy mob> b. absurdly fond ; infatuated <he's crazy about the girl> c. passionately preoccupied ; obsessed <crazy about boats> • crazily adverb • craziness noun II. noun (plural crazies) Date: 1867 one who is or acts crazy; especially such a one associated with a radical or extremist political cause III. adverb Date: 1887 extremely, wildly <crazy good>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (crazier, craziest) 1 colloq. (of a person, an action, etc.) insane or mad; foolish. 2 colloq. (usu. foll. by about) extremely enthusiastic. 3 sl. a exciting, unrestrained. b excellent. 4 (attrib.) (of paving, a quilt, etc.) made of irregular pieces fitted together. 5 archaic (of a ship, building, etc.) unsound, shaky. Phrases and idioms: crazy bone US the funny bone. like crazy colloq. = like mad (see MAD). Derivatives: crazily adv. craziness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crazy Cra"zy (kr[=a]"z[y^]), a. [From Craze.] 1. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. --Macaulay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. --Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. --Jeffrey. 2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. Over moist and crazy brains. --Hudibras. 3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.] The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. --R. B. Kimball. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(crazier, craziest, crazies) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you describe someone or something as crazy, you think they are very foolish or strange. (INFORMAL) People thought they were all crazy to try to make money from manufacturing... That's why he's got so caught up with this crazy idea about Mr. Trancas. ADJ [disapproval] • crazily The teenagers shook their long, black hair and gesticulated crazily... ADV: ADV after v, ADV adj 2. Someone who is crazy is insane. (INFORMAL) If I sat home and worried about all this stuff, I'd go crazy... He strides around the room beaming like a crazy man. = mad ADJ • Crazy is also a noun. Outside, mumbling, was one of New York's ever-present crazies. = loony N-COUNT 3. If you are crazy about something, you are very enthusiastic about it. If you are not crazy about something, you do not like it. (INFORMAL) He's still crazy about both his work and his hobbies... = mad ADJ: v-link ADJ about n • Crazy is also a combining form. Every football-crazy schoolboy in Europe dreams of one day being involved in the championships. COMB in ADJ 4. If you are crazy about someone, you are deeply in love with them. (INFORMAL) None of that matters, because we're crazy about each other. ADJ: v-link ADJ about n 5. If something or someone makes you crazy or drives you crazy, they make you extremely annoyed or upset. (INFORMAL) This sitting around is driving me crazy... When Jock woke up and found you gone he went crazy. = mad ADJ: v-link ADJ 6. You use like crazy to emphasize that something happens to a great degree. (INFORMAL) The stuff was selling like crazy... = like mad PHRASE: PHR after v [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Shattered, broken, tottering, rickety, shaky, crank, worn out, out of order. 2. Insane, distracted, mad, lunatic, demented, deranged, delirious, crack-brained, cracked, crazed, out of one's head, out of one's senses, out of one's wits.

Moby Thesaurus

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