Antonyms for crazy


Grammar : Adj
Spell : krey-zee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkreɪ zi


Definition of crazy

Origin :
  • 1570s, "diseased, sickly," from craze + -y (2). Meaning "full of cracks or flaws" is from 1580s; that of "of unsound mind, or behaving as so" is from 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 Lakhota (Siouan) war leader (d.1877) translates thaÅ¡uka witko, literally "his horse is crazy."
  • adj mentally strange
  • adj unrealistic, fantastic
  • adj infatuated, in love
Example sentences :
  • He was acting like a crazy boy, and he was a man, all of twenty-two!
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • "I guess you know I've been crazy about him," she said quietly.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • I don't think much of your Lauzanne, he's like a crazy horse.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • I gits half eat by that crazy skate, an' fired without a cent fer it.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • "You are crazy; so do not talk any more," interrupted Hubertine, coldly.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • You needn't speak to me, an' I'll live in the other part; but I shall be crazy if you don't let me do your work.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • "But it's sure to be him," chattered Simms, his teeth as crazy as his grammar.
  • Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • She had been so crazy, she had seen nothing, thought of nothing.
  • Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
  • For we had crashed by so that the crazy cart must have thrilled in every stick of it.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • If papa were like what you say he is, he'd be—why, he'd be crazy!
  • Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington

Synonyms for crazy

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