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  • mad

    insane, behaviour

  • insane

    ability, mental condition

  • demented

    insane, raving

  • lunatic

    insane, ability

  • wild

    outrageous, infatuated

  • loony

    ability, oddball

  • unbalanced

    sane, lunatic

  • foolish

    ability, snooty

  • silly

    ability, foolish

  • absurd

    foolish, senseless

  • daft

    sane, insane

  • nuts

    concern, sane

  • preposterous

    foolish, absurd

  • bonkers

    sane, mental

  • batty

    sane, mental

  • nutty

    wild, mental

  • deranged

    insane, neurotic

  • senseless

    unreasonable, asinine

  • screwball

    wise, lunatic

  • wacky

    mentally strange

  • cuckoo

    wise, mental

  • nonsensical

    unreasonable, ridiculous

  • crazed

    mad, mentally strange

  • barmy

    behaviour, mentally strange

  • unhinged

    mad, mentally strange

  • half-baked

    ridiculous, idiotic

  • dotty

  • gaga

    mental

  • strange

    peculiar, unrealistic

  • ridiculous

    senseless, absurd

  • maniacal

    mentally strange

  • odd

    mental condition, weird

  • mental

  • screwy

  • dippy

  • stupid

    senseless, idiotic

  • cracked

  • touched

  • loco

    looney

  • eccentric

    wise, weird

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  • insane
  • kooky
  • mad
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • silly
  • wacky
  • ape
  • berserk
  • cuckoo
  • lunatic
  • potty
  • psycho
  • screwball
  • barmy
  • bats in the belfry
  • batty
  • bonkers
  • cracked
  • crazed
  • daft
  • delirious
  • demented
  • deranged
  • dingy
  • dippy
  • erratic
  • flaky
  • flipped
  • flipped-out
  • freaked-out
  • fruity
  • idiotic
  • mad as a March hare
  • mad as a hatter
  • maniacal
  • mental
  • moonstruck
  • nutty as fruitcake
  • of unsound mind
  • out of one’s mind
  • out of one’s tree
  • out to lunch
  • round the bend
  • schizo
  • screw loose
  • screwy
  • touched
  • unbalanced
  • unglued
  • unhinged
  • unzipped
  • absurd
  • bizarre
  • foolish
  • goofy
  • insane
  • irresponsible
  • ludicrous
  • odd
  • outrageous
  • preposterous
  • ridiculous
  • silly
  • strange
  • weird
  • eccentric
  • loony
  • wild
  • balmy
  • beyond all reason
  • cockeyed
  • derisory
  • fatuous
  • foolhardy
  • half-baked
  • harebrained
  • idiotic
  • ill-conceived
  • impracticable
  • imprudent
  • inane
  • inappropriate
  • nonsensical
  • out of all reason
  • peculiar
  • puerile
  • quixotic
  • senseless
  • short-sighted
  • unworkable
  • hysterical
  • mad
  • passionate
  • eager
  • keen
  • wild
  • ardent
  • beside oneself
  • devoted
  • enamored
  • fanatical
  • smitten
  • zealous

On this page you’ll find 242 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to crazy, such as: insane, kooky, mad, nuts, nutty, and silly.

  • logical
  • normal
  • rational
  • reasonable
  • sensible
  • usual
  • balanced
  • believeable
  • realistic
  • responsible
  • sane
  • unenthusiastic

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WORDS RELATED TO CRAZY

  • batty
  • campy
  • crazy
  • daffy
  • dippy
  • flaky
  • fooling around
  • foolish
  • for grins
  • freaky
  • gagged up
  • goofy
  • idiotic
  • illogical
  • inane
  • incongruous
  • irrational
  • jokey
  • joshing
  • laughable
  • loony
  • ludicrous
  • nonsensical
  • nutty
  • off the wall
  • preposterous
  • sappy
  • screwy
  • silly
  • stupid
  • tomfool
  • unreasonable
  • wacky
  • absurd
  • bugged out
  • cracked
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • daft
  • deranged
  • dotty
  • foolish
  • harebrained
  • idiotic
  • loony
  • mentally incompetent
  • moronic
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • odd
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • silly
  • stupid
  • wacky
  • bonkers
  • brainsick
  • crackers
  • crazy
  • crazy as a loon
  • cuckoo
  • daft
  • demented
  • deranged
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • dotty
  • kooky
  • loco
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • mad as a hatter
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mentally ill
  • moonstruck
  • not all there
  • nuts
  • nutty as a fruitcake
  • off one’s rocker
  • out of one’s mind
  • out to lunch
  • psycho
  • sick
  • sick in the head
  • stark raving mad
  • touched
  • unbalanced
  • unhinged
  • unsound
  • wacky
  • crazy
  • demented
  • deranged
  • insane
  • mad
  • maniacal
  • manic
  • violent
  • beatific
  • cool
  • crazy
  • delighted
  • dreamy
  • ecstatic
  • elated
  • enchanted
  • enraptured
  • euphoric
  • floating
  • flying
  • gone
  • heavenly
  • in ecstasy
  • in seventh heaven
  • in the twilight zone
  • joyful
  • joyous
  • mad
  • on cloud nine
  • rapturous
  • sent
  • turned-on
  • bananas
  • bats
  • crazy
  • gaga
  • loony

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  1. crazy

    Synonyms:
    idiotic, broken-down, mad, crazed, crack-brained, lunatic, demented, daft, insane, aberrant

    Antonyms:
    sound, robust, vigorous, unimpaired

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

  1. crazy, loony, looney, nutcase, weirdoadjective

    someone deranged and possibly dangerous

    Synonyms:
    spook, nutcase, creep, weirdo, crazy, weirdie, loony, weirdy, looney

    Antonyms:
    practical, sane, unenthusiastic, familiar, unexcited

  2. brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhingedadjective

    affected with madness or insanity

    «a man who had gone mad»

    Synonyms:
    harebrained, insane, nauseous, wan, disgusted, gaga, sore, imbalanced, macabre, brainsick, pallid, sick of(p), sick, grisly, disquieted, half-baked, maladjusted, unbalanced, unhinged, disturbed, softheaded, gruesome, dotty, unrestrained, grim, sickish, worried, excited, nauseated, sick(p), fed up(p), mad, wild, pale, upset, delirious, demented, screwball, crazy, ghastly, huffy, ill, queasy, distressed, frantic, tired of(p)

    Antonyms:
    unenthusiastic, unexcited, sane, familiar, practical

  3. crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheadedadjective

    foolish; totally unsound

    «a crazy scheme»; «half-baked ideas»; «a screwball proposal without a prayer of working»

    Synonyms:
    mad, unhinged, dotty, sick, demented, screwball, softheaded, crazy, half-baked, brainsick, wild, disturbed, gaga, unbalanced, underdone

    Antonyms:
    practical, sane, unexcited, familiar, unenthusiastic

  4. crazyadjective

    possessed by inordinate excitement

    «the crowd went crazy»; «was crazy to try his new bicycle»

    Synonyms:
    mad, unhinged, dotty, sick, demented, screwball, softheaded, half-baked, brainsick, wild, disturbed, gaga, unbalanced

    Antonyms:
    unexcited, sane, unenthusiastic, familiar, practical

  5. crazyadjective

    bizarre or fantastic

    «had a crazy dream»; «wore a crazy hat»

    Synonyms:
    mad, unhinged, dotty, sick, demented, screwball, softheaded, half-baked, brainsick, wild, disturbed, gaga, unbalanced

    Antonyms:
    unenthusiastic, unexcited, practical, familiar, sane

  6. crazy, wild, dotty, gagaadjective

    intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with

    «crazy about cars and racing»; «he is potty about her»

    Synonyms:
    raging, round the bend, gaga, senile, nutty, buggy, doddering, brainsick, crackers, dotty, untamed, sick, unfounded, doddery, wacky, kooky, daft, bats, hazardous, unbalanced, nuts, unhinged, kookie, fruity, disturbed, softheaded, bonkers, godforsaken, uncivilised, cracked, haywire, uncivilized, half-baked, waste, baseless, risky, angry, idle, mad, wild, barbarian, savage, fantastic, demented, screwball, loopy, violent, crazy, loco, raving mad, batty, loony, barmy, groundless, barbaric, around the bend, furious, balmy, unwarranted, tempestuous, whacky

    Antonyms:
    unexcited, familiar, practical, unenthusiastic, sane

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

  1. kookoo

    it means crazy

    kelly is kookoo

    Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2020  

  2. badongaface

    this word means crazy.

    you are such a badongaface.

    Submitted by levi_g on March 25, 2021  

  3. laneyadjective

    she was so laney they put her in a rubber room

    Submitted by jwayno84 on February 4, 2022  

  4. looptidadjective

    beyond nuts, past the point of crazy, heavily bizarre, ‘clown world’ worthy

    a parent would go full blown looptid if a child was being harassed by anyone!

    Submitted by sageroyal8 on January 2, 2022  

  5. nutseyadjective

    how a woman acts around the ninth month of a pregnancy.

    she is just having the nine month nutseys

    Submitted by frank1533 on September 10, 2021  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

  1. crazyadjective

    Synonyms:
    shattered, broken, tottering, rickety, worn out, out of order

  2. crazyadjective

    Synonyms:
    insane, distracted, mad, lunatic, demented, delirious, crack-brained, cracked, crazed, out of one’s head, out of one’s senses, out of one’s wits

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  1. crazyadjective

    Synonyms:
    demented, deranged, insane, delirious, dementate, mad, lunatic, distracted, frantic, crazed, crack-brained, rickety, decrepit, shaky, tottering, dilapidated, desirous, eager, infatuated

    Antonyms:
    sane, rational

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  1. List of paraphrases for «crazy»:

    insane, mad, nuts, madman, madness, fool, lunatic, psycho, amazing, maniac, fou, screwy, loony, sick, foolish, wacky, crazed, insanity, loco, wild, kooky, wacko, demented, stir-crazy, hinky, nutty, brain-dead, screwball, folly, coot, barge, berserk, loca, senseless, wack, absurd, hysterical, silly, craze, -crazy, craziness, stupid

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  1. Susan Popkin:

    Teachers, firefighters, people who work in restaurants commute crazy hours because they live so far out.

  2. Devin Allen:

    It was a crazy day. It was the beginning, and this day changed my life.

  3. Mayor Dale Bumstead:

    It was a crazy, crazy couple of days.

  4. David Lummis:

    We had it declining by about 45%, which is crazy because we had never seen decline in that area of the market, which up until then had been growing by about 10% anually.

  5. Shawn Sanders:

    I was like, Man, thats crazy, it really hit home. That gives me the power and the energy to keep going and be the person I am today, and continue to help people, help the youth coming up under me and just continue to live life and flourish.


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  • مجنونArabic
  • dəliAzerbaijani
  • побъркан, смахнатBulgarian
  • boigCatalan, Valencian
  • bláznivý, trhlý, šílený, potrhlý, ztřeštěný, zbavený rozumu, pominutýCzech
  • skør, helt vildtDanish
  • verrücktGerman
  • τρελόςGreek
  • frenezaEsperanto
  • loco, loca, desquiciadoSpanish
  • دیوانهPersian
  • hullu, mieletön, villi, järjetönFinnish
  • fou, folleFrench
  • craiceáilteIrish
  • craicte, às a chiallScottish Gaelic
  • पागलHindi
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  • pazzoItalian
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  • 狂しいJapanese
  • გიჟი, გადარეული, უმართავი, შეშლილიGeorgian
  • ಹುಚ್ಚುKannada
  • 미친Korean
  • delirus, insanisLatin
  • traks, vājprātīgs, ārprātīgsLatvian
  • gilaMalay
  • miġnunMaltese
  • နှမ်းBurmese
  • gekDutch
  • gal, gærning, galningNorwegian
  • wariat, zwariowany, dziwak, szalony, świrPolish
  • لېونی, لېونۍPashto, Pushto
  • louco, malucoPortuguese
  • sonată, tulburat, necontrolat, nebun, sonat, înnebunit, nebunăRomanian
  • сумасшедший, безумныйRussian
  • géloSundanese
  • galenSwedish
  • பைத்தியம்Tamil
  • వెర్రిTelugu
  • บ้าThai
  • baliwTagalog
  • manyak, zibidi, deli, aptal, çılgınTurkish
  • پاگلUrdu
  • khùngVietnamese
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adjective, cra·zi·er, cra·zi·est.

Informal. unpredictable, nonconforming, or odd: All I can say is she’s the craziest person I know.

Informal. senseless; nonsensical; totally unsound: Surely you don’t plan to invest money in that crazy scheme!

Informal. extremely busy, hectic, chaotic, etc.: Yesterday was such a crazy day I hardly had time to eat.

Informal. intensely enthusiastic; passionately excited (usually followed by about or for): Like many kids, he was crazy for baseball and yearned to be a professional ballplayer.

Informal. very enamored or infatuated (usually followed by about or for): It’s obvious he’s just crazy about her.

Informal. intensely anxious or eager; impatient: I’m crazy to try those new skis.

Informal. very annoyed, frustrated, or bothered: It makes me crazy that some kids don’t get a fair chance in life.

Informal. having an unusual, unexpected, or random quality, behavior, result, pattern, etc.: I’m back in Connecticut in a crazy twist of events, living in the same town where I grew up.

Archaic. likely to break or fall to pieces.

Archaic. weak, infirm, or sickly.

adverb

Informal. extremely; madly: December is a crazy busy month for us.That new clothing store is crazy popular with teenage girls.

noun, plural cra·zies.

a person who is mentally deranged or insane.

Informal. an unpredictable, nonconforming person; oddball: Next door is a house full of crazies who wear weird clothes and come in at all hours.

the crazies, Informal. a sense of extreme unease, nervousness, or panic; extreme jitters: The crew was starting to get the crazies from being cooped up belowdecks for so long.

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Idioms about crazy

    like crazy, Informal.

    1. with great enthusiasm or energy; to an extreme: We shopped like crazy and bought all our Christmas gifts in one afternoon.
    2. with great speed or recklessness: He drives like crazy once he’s out on the highway.

Origin of crazy

First recorded in 1570–80; craz(e) + -y1

synonym study for crazy

OTHER WORDS FROM crazy

cra·zi·ly, adverbcra·zi·ness, nounhalf-cra·zy, adjective

Words nearby crazy

crayon, craythur, craze, crazed, craziness, crazy, crazy bone, crazy eights, crazy golf, Crazy Horse, crazy house

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Words related to crazy

insane, kooky, mad, nuts, nutty, silly, wacky, absurd, bizarre, foolish, goofy, irresponsible, ludicrous, odd, outrageous, preposterous, ridiculous, strange, weird, hysterical

How to use crazy in a sentence

  • “We can all be arguing like crazy people but when you attack one, you attack us all.”

  • It was really crazy, and, at some point, you have to give yourself over to it.

  • What I like about these episodes is the way they capture the stir-crazy energy of living in quarantine after all these months.

  • The butterflies were the craziest and most surreal experience.

  • So, I’ve never been one to really go crazy or do anything that wild, but I will say this.

  • You were basically the guy to do every dictator or crazy character, from Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad to Bin Laden.

  • «That was crazy,» Lynn Jenkins of Kansas muttered to another member as she walked to greet Boehner.

  • He came to Phoenix once and we went up to see him, and they got so crazy that I ended up trying to hitchhike home.

  • Just who is crazy enough to go swimming when the pond across the street has a layer of ice across the top?

  • That goodness steered him clear of the Sex Boys, the Crazy Homicides, the Sons of Nuns, and the other gangs of East New York.

  • All Weimar adores him, and people say that women still go perfectly crazy over him.

  • The wheezy, crazy mechanism of the car went to bits in unexpected places.

  • Half-fed men would dig for diamonds, and men sheltered by a crazy roof erect the marble walls of palaces.

  • Sometimes he looks at me as if he were going to break out with that crazy idea to which he treated me the other day.

  • You would think the poor teacher would be driven crazy, but he seems as calm as a daisy in a June breeze.

British Dictionary definitions for crazy


adjective -zier or -ziest

informal insane

fantastic; strange; ridiculousa crazy dream

(postpositive; foll by about or over) informal extremely fond (of)

slang very good or excellent

noun plural crazies

Derived forms of crazy

crazily, adverbcraziness, noun

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Other Idioms and Phrases with crazy


In addition to the idioms beginning with crazy

  • crazy about, be
  • crazy like a fox

also see:

  • drive someone crazy
  • like crazy

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Для немцев это «не все чашки в буфете», для французов – «ушел на запад», для итальянцев – «снаружи, как балкон». В русском же языке подходящее выражение – «не все дома». Сегодня – разговор о синонимах слова crazy: какими еще словами можно описать состояние «сошел с ума» – как буквально, так и образно.

Crazy people don't know they are crazy. I know I am crazy, therefore I am not crazy, isn't that crazy?Начнем с начала – со слова crazy. Оно редко означает буквальное безумие, а вот в переносном значении его можно использовать как в негативном контексте (безумный, чокнутый), так и в положительном. И тогда crazy – это увлеченный, воодушевленный или даже влюбленный (как в песне You drive me crazy Бритни Спирс).

I just met you, and this is crazy. But I'm from the future and I'm you baby.Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. Вот все, что вам надо знать о мужчинах и женщинах: мужчины глупы, а женщины безумны. И причина тому, что женщины безумны – то, что мужчины глупы. (George Carlin, американский комик).
Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy. But here’s my number, so call me maybe. Эй, мы же только что познакомились, и это просто с ума сойти что такое, но вот мой номер, может позвонишь… (Песня, звучащая из каждого утюга).

Mad

Mad – более серьезный синоним. Его по-прежнему можно использовать для обозначения романтической привязанности (mad about you, то есть без ума от тебя).

Но основное значение связано как раз с непорядком в голове – вспомнить хотя бы персонажа «Alice in Wonderland» Mad Hatter, безумного шляпника. Появился этот персонаж из выражения mad as a hatter – безумный, как шляпник, так как в 18-19 веках для обработки войлока, из которого делали шапки, применялась ртуть. Шляпники, надышавшись ее парами, сходили с ума в очень буквальном смысле этого слова.

По прошествии ста лет, в названии фильма «It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world», надо было повторить целых четыре раза, чтобы показать, каким безумным стал наш мир.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Когда мы вспомним, что все мы безумцы, все тайны мира исчезают и жизнь становится понятной. (Mark Twain, американский писатель)

I love when girls are mad at me and don't tell me why - said no guy everЕще одно значение слова mad, которое в жизни (особенно в семейной) встречается еще чаще, это mad at – злиться на кого-то или на что-то.

I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that. У меня нет девушки. Но я знаю одну женщину, которая на меня сильно разозлится за такие слова.

Out of your mind

Это выражение, пожалуй, ближе всего к нашему «с ума сошел». Буквально – «вне разума». Вспомнить такой вариант будет уместно, если, например, ваш друг сообщает, что собирается сделать что-нибудь опасное – погулять по крыше небоскреба, поплавать с акулами или поесть кузнечиков, купленных на рынке в экзотической стране.

Are you out of your mind? Ты с ума сошел?

Lunatic

А вот ложный друг переводчика – слово lunatic. И это вовсе не человек, гуляющий во сне (именно это слово «лунатик» означает в русском языке). И не житель Луны («Привет Лунатикам», как говорил Волк из «Ну, Погоди!»). В английском же lunatic (ударение на У) – чокнутый, безумный.

Psycho

Never take a shower when there is psycoЕсли всякие crazy и mad можно смело использовать в игриво-переносном значении – типа «ты что, ешь мороженое, когда на дворе минус 15, совсем с ума сошел?» – то psycho – это уже действительно «сумасшедший», в смысле агрессивный и опасный для окружающих. Кто-то, кто может вдруг наброситься на окружающих и, возможно, держит в подвале пару скелетов. Классический фильм Хичкока «Psycho» (в русском переводе он так и называется – «Психо») или более современный «American Psycho» («Американский психопат») – как раз о таких маньяках.

Кстати, будьте внимательны с произношением слова psycho, и psy и ch в словах греческого происхождения читаются непривычно. Psycho – это «сайко» а вовсе не «псичо», как можно подумать.

Примерно из той же области слово mental и insane – человек, который или ведет себя неадекватно, или действительно нуждается в профессиональной помощи.

Nuts, Bananas, Coocoo (cuckoo)

Tonight we go nutsА чтобы закончить на чем-то позитивном – каждое из этих трех слов, наоборот – описывает веселую «придурь», когда «не все дома», но от этого только весело. Почему именно «орехи», «бананы» и «кукушка» – это отдельная история: существует несколько версий происхождения каждого из терминов.

Damn, girl, you make me go bananasNut – «орехом» в свое время называли голову человека, бананы вызывают у обезьян приступ неконтролируемого возбуждения. А что касается coocoo, кукушки – разве откладывать яйца в чужие гнезда и куковать в свободное время – это не странное поведение? В русском ведь мы тоже говорим, что кто-то «ку-ку»… Что же до go bananas – опять же, точно не известно, но скорее всего это связано или с тем как приматы могут приходить в неистовство при виде лакомства, или с изогнутой, непрямой формой этого фрукта.

If you’re poor and you do something stupid, you’re nuts. If you’re rich and do something stupid, you’re eccentric. Если ты бедный и сделаешь что-нибудь глупой, ты придурок. А если ты сделаешь что-нибудь глупое, будучи богатым – ты эксцентричный.
Don’t listen to what he is saying, he’s a little coocoo.
Не слушай его, у него не все дома.
When I told her I broke her computer, she went bananas. Когда я сказал ей, что сломал ее компьютер, она пришла в ярость.

Ну  вот и все, на этом экскурс в мир безумия пора заканчивать. Сохраняйте трезвый ум и ясную память – и они будут вашими лучшими помощниками в изучении английского языка.

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