Another word for crazy
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Adjective
Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness
Showing or having enthusiasm
- Crazy or foolish.
- Extremely enthusiastic:
- Used to express contempt, disappointment, or refusal.
- Extremely enthusiastic and dedicated.
- Filled with or motivated by zeal; fervent.
- Somewhat hotter than temperate; having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat; moderately hot:
- Having the natural heat of living beings:
- Preserving or imparting heat:
- Of or affected by rabies.
- Raging; uncontrollable:
- Extremely zealous or enthusiastic; fanatical:
- Angry; resentful:
- Mentally deranged:
- Characteristic of mental derangement:
- Having a fine, sharp cutting edge or point.
- Having or marked by intellectual quickness and acuity.
- Acutely sensitive:
- Having or showing great emotion or zeal; ardent:
- Extremely hot; glowing.
- Having or demonstrating enthusiasm.
- Expressing or characterized by warmth of feeling; passionate:
- Displaying or characterized by strong enthusiasm or devotion; fervent:
- Burning; fiery.
See also:So senseless as to be laughable
- Eccentric or irrational:
- Crazy; silly:
- Excessively sentimental; mawkish.
- Silly or foolish.
- Full of sap.
- Characterized by jerks or jerking:
- Foolish; silly:
- Dazed or lethargic, as if drugged.
- Stupid; doltish:
- Silly; foolish:
- Not sensible; foolish.
- Having the quality or fragrance of balm; soothing.
- Mild and pleasant:
- Eccentric in behavior.
- Consisting of or having many loops:
- Crazy or eccentric:
- Offbeat or bizarre:
- Extremely foolish or silly.
- Mentally deranged; crazy.
- A foolish or crazy person.
- Foolish; ridiculous; absurd:
- Askew; crooked.
- Intoxicated; drunk.
- Comical or ludicrous because of incongruity or strangeness.
- A comical person given to extravagant or outlandish behavior.
- A ludicrous, buffoonish character in old comedies who attempts feebly to mimic the tricks of the clown.
- Not of this earth; preternatural; supernatural.
- Unnaturally strange and frightening.
- Ridiculously unreasonable or uncustomary; absurd:
- A stupid or foolish person.
- Extremely foolish or stupid.
- Lacking judgment, realism, or firmness.
- Having or exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense; foolish.
- Lacking seriousness or responsibleness; frivolous:
- Semiconscious; dazed:
- Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd.
- Lacking intelligible meaning:
- Foolish; absurd:
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting mild intellectual disability. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Angry; resentful:
- Mentally deranged:
- Characteristic of mental derangement:
- A person who is affected by lunacy; a mentally deranged person.
- A very foolish person.
- Affected by lunacy; mentally deranged.
- Of, exhibiting, or afflicted with mental derangement. Not used in psychiatric diagnosis.
- Characteristic of or associated with persons who are mentally deranged:
- Intended for use by such persons:
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting profound mental retardation. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Having or showing little sense; foolish:
- Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly:
- Capable of arousing laughter; absurd or ridiculous:
- Embarrassed; abashed:
- Extremely unreasonable, incongruous, or inappropriate:
- Impossible to take seriously; silly:
- Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or meaning in human life or in the universe.
Noun
A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy
- A strange or eccentric person.
- A strange person, event, or thing.
- A pitched ball that curves in the direction opposite to that of a normal curve ball.
- An eccentric, impulsively whimsical, or irrational person.
- Impulsively whimsical; eccentric:
- An indehiscent fruit having a single seed enclosed in a hard shell, such as an acorn or hazelnut.
- The usually edible seed of such a fruit.
- Any of various other usually edible seeds enclosed in a hard covering such as a seed coat or the stone of a drupe, as in a pine nut, peanut, almond, or walnut.
- A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy.
- An empty-headed or silly person.
- An object, such as a brick or stone, used as a missile.
- An unspecified gadget or other small article, especially one whose name is unknown or forgotten.
- A person who is scatterbrained or eccentric.
- A grayish bird (Cuculus canorus) of Eurasia and Africa that has a characteristic two-note call and lays its eggs in the nests of birds of other species.
- Any of various other birds of the family Cuculidae.
- The call or cry of one of these birds.
- Extremely foolish or silly.
- Mentally deranged; crazy.
- A foolish or crazy person.
- Any of several fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia of northern regions, having a short tail, webbed feet, and a laughlike cry.
- A device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft.
- A clever turn of speech; a verbal conceit:
- A peculiar or eccentric idea or action.
- A person who is affected by lunacy; a mentally deranged person.
- A very foolish person.
- Affected by lunacy; mentally deranged.
- Departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern.
- Deviating from a circular form or path, as in an elliptical orbit.
- Not having the same center:
- An eccentric person, especially one with bizarre ideas.
- Foolish; harebrained:
See also:
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Another word for crazy
Modifier
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- Angry; resentful:
- Mentally deranged:
- Characteristic of mental derangement:
- Suffering from dementia.
- Crazy or foolish.
- Maddened, driven insane.
- Covered with cracks (generally applied to porcelain).
- simple past tense and past participle of craze
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