Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crazy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

crazy
adj 1: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
[syn: {brainsick}, {demented}, {distracted}, {disturbed},
{mad}, {sick}, {unbalanced}, {unhinged}]
2: (informal) foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical
solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a
screwball proposal without a prayer of working" [syn: {half-baked},
{screwball}, {softheaded}, {meshuga}, {meshugge}]
3: marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "she was crazy
about him"; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he
was infatuated with her" [syn: {dotty}, {gaga}, {enamored},
{infatuated}, {in love}, {smitten}, {soft on(p)}, {taken
with(p)}]
4: (informal) possessed by inordinate excitement; "the crowd
went crazy"; "was crazy to try his new bicycle"
5: bizarre or fantastic; "had a crazy dream"; "wore a crazy
hat"
6: (informal) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with;
"crazy about cars and racing"
n : someone deranged and possibly dangerous [syn: {loony}, {looney},
{weirdo}]


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