Word Meanings - CRAZY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Characterized by weakness or feeblness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macualay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
Additional info about word: CRAZY
1. Characterized by weakness or feeblness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macualay. 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. The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball. Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow , 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRAZY)
- Cracked
- Crazy
- flighty
- queer
- deranged
- creaky
- touched
- cranky
- chinky
- Mad
- Insane
- demented
- furious
- lunatic
- infuriated
- crazy
- maniacal
- frantic
- rabid
- wild
- distracted
Related words: (words related to CRAZY)
- DERANGER
One who deranges. - DERANGEMENT
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; - CRACKAJACK
1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes. - DERANGED
Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb. - QUEERISH
Rather queer; somewhat singular. - DISTRACTION
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in - DISTRACTED
Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope. - CRACK-BRAINED
Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope. - RABIDLY
In a rabid manner; with extreme violence. - DEMENTED
Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n. - CRACKER STATE
Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5. - CRACKLE
To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden. - CRACKLED
Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware. - CRACKSMAN
A burglar. - INSANENESS
Insanity; madness. - CRACK
cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2. - CRACKLING
Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting. (more info) 1. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated. As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Eccl. vii. 6. 2. The well-browned, - TOUCHY
Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury. - TOUCHING
Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv. - FLIGHTY
1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and - WIT-CRACKER
One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak. - DECIDEMENT
Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl. - DIPSOMANIACAL
Of or pertaining to dipsomania. - DEGRADEMENT
Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.