crazy

English

Etymology

From craze +‎ -y.

Earliest meaning (1570s) was that of "diseased, sickly". Meaning "full of cracks or flaws" is from the 1580s; that of "of unsound mind, or behaving as so" is from the 1610s. Jazz slang sense "cool, exciting" attested by 1927. To drive (someone) crazy is attested by 1873. Phrase crazy like a fox recorded from 1935. Crazy Horse, Teton Lakota (Siouan) war leader (d. 1877) translates thašuka witko, literally "his horse is crazy".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹeɪzi/

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• Rhymes: -eɪzi

Adjective

crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)

1. Insane; lunatic; demented.
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     Over moist and crazy brains.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

   His ideas were both frightening and crazy.

2. Out of control.

   When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.

3. Overly excited or enthusiastic.
   • (Can we date this quote by R. B. Kimball and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.

   He went crazy when he won.

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. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
   • (Can we date this quote by Macaulay and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Piles of mean and crazy houses.

   • (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.

   • (Can we date this quote by Jeffrey and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:insane
• (out of control): off the chain, nutso
• (insane; lunatic; demented): deranged, loco, nutso, zany

Derived terms

• cray
• craze
• crazily
• craziness
• crazing
• crazy bone
• crazy like a fox
• crazy mad
• crazy paving
• crazy quilt
• like crazy

 

Translations

insane, demented

• Arabic: مَجْنُون (ar) (majnūn), مَخْبُول (maḵbūl), مَسْعُور (masʕūr)
• Armenian: խենթ (hy) (xentʻ), խելագար (hy) (xelagar), գիժ (hy) (giž)
• Azerbaijani: dəli (az)
• Basque: zoro, ero
• Belarusian: шалёны (šaljóny)
• Bulgarian: луд (bg) (lud), побъркан (bg) (pobǎrkan)
• Burmese: နှမ်း (my) (hnam:)
• Catalan: boig (ca)
• Cebuano: buang
• Chinese:

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

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

• Czech: šílený (cs), pominutý, trhlý, potrhlý, zbavený rozumu, ztřeštěný, bláznivý
• 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)
• French: avoir une araignée au plafond (fr), chtarbé (fr), dérangé (fr), dingo (fr), fou (fr), taré (fr)
• Galician: tolo m, louco m
• Georgian: შეშლილი (šešlili), გადარეული (gadareuli), გიჟი (giži)
• German: verrückt (de)
• Greek: τρελός (el) m (trelós)

  Ancient: μανιώδης (maniṓdēs)

• Hawaiian: pupule
• Hindi: पागल (hi) (pāgal)
• Hungarian: bolond (hu), őrült (hu)
• Ilocano: bagtit, balla, antutit, ambagel, agmuyot, ammangaw, kuwatit, mauyong, alloy, attit, talpeng, appat, allot, tiwel, alintaweng, ambreng, ullog, murtit, ketit, bultik
• Indonesian: gila (id)
• Italian: pazzo (it), matto (it)
• Japanese: 気の狂った (きのくるった, ki no kurutta), 頭がおかしい (あたまがおかしい, atama ga okashii)
• Kapampangan: murit, moret
• Khmer: ឆ្កួត (km) (chkuət), លលាតែ (lĕəʼliə tae), ឧម្មត្តកៈ (ʼummattaʼkaʼ) (formal)
• Korean: 미친 (ko) (michin)
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• Kurdish:
• Latgalian: troks
• Latin: dēlīrus, vēcors, insānus
• Latvian: traks, ārprātīgs, vājprātīgs
• Macedonian: луд (lud)
• Malay: gila
• Maltese: miġnun m
• Maori: pōrewharewha, heahea, rorirori, wairangi, pōrangi, pōrewarewa
• Mongolian: солиотой (mn) (soliotoj), галзуу (mn) (galzuu)
• Norwegian: galen, gal (no), gæren (no)
• Pashto: لېونی (ps) (lewanay)
• Persian: دیوانه (fa) (divâne), مجنون (fa) (majnun)
• Polish: szalony (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)
• Scottish Gaelic: craicte, às a chiall (3rd person singular masculine, see entry for other persons)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: луд

  Roman: lud (sh)

• Slovak: bláznivý
• Slovene: blazen, trapast
• Spanish: loco (es), colgado (es), sonado (es), trastornado (es), tronado (es), zumbado (es), orate (es), chalado (es), tarambana (es)
• Sundanese: gélo
• Swedish: galen (sv), tok (sv), tokig (sv)
• Tagalog: (literally) baliw (tl), loko (tl)
• Tajik: девона (tg) (devona)
• Thai: บ้า (bâa)
• Turkish: aptal (tr), deli (tr), manyak (tr)
• Ukrainian: божеві́льний (uk) (boževílʹnyj), безу́мний (uk) (bezúmnyj)
• Urdu: پاگل (pāgal)
• Vietnamese: điên (vi), điên rồ (vi)
• Volapük: lienetik (vo)
• Welsh: gwallgof (cy), ynfyd (cy), gorffwyll (cy), lloerig (cy)

out of control

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

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

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

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hullu (fi), villi (fi)
• French: fou (fr)
• Georgian: უმართავი (umartavi)
• German: verrückt (de)
• Greek: τρελός (el) m (trelós)
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• Khmer: ឆ្កួត (km) (chkuət), ឈ្លក់ (km) (chlŭək)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: 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 (klâng)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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
• 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)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} pazzo (it)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 頭のおかしい (atama-no okashii)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} traks
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• 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) (divāne), ^{(please verify)} مجنون (fa) (majnun)
• Pitjantjatjara: ^{(please verify)} rama
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} лу̑д m

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} lȗd (sh) m

• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} nor (sl)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} galen (sv), ^{(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.

Translations

very, extremely

• Norwegian:

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

  Nynorsk: sjukt, sinnsssjukt

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• Swedish: sjukt (sv)

Noun

crazy (countable and uncountable, plural crazies)

1. 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.
   • 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
• Finnish: hullu (fi), mielipuoli (fi)
• French: fou (fr) m, folle (fr) f
• Khmer: ដំណើប (km) (dɑmnaəp), ចំកួត (cɑmkuət)
• Ngarrindjeri: wurangi
• Norwegian: galning m, gærning m
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• Pashto: لېونی (ps) m (lewanay), لېونۍ f (lewanëy)
• Polish: świr (pl) m, dziwak (pl) m, wariat (pl) m
• Portuguese: louco (pt) m
• 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)
• Turkish: manyak (tr), zibidi (tr)

See also

• crazy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia