cracked

cracked

adj \ˈkrakt\

Definition of CRACKED

1

a : broken (as by a sharp blow) so that the surface is fissured <cracked china> b : broken into coarse particles <cracked wheat> c : marked by harshness, dissonance, or failure to sustain a tone <a cracked voice>

2

: mentally disturbed : crazy

Examples of CRACKED

1. The vase is cracked but it can still hold water.
2. the cracked leather of the old chair
3. His hands were sore and cracked from working long hours in the cold.
4. Her lips are dried and cracked.

First Known Use of CRACKED

1503

Related to CRACKED

Synonyms: balmy, barmy [chiefly British], bats, batty, bedlam, bonkers, brainsick, bughouse [slang], certifiable, crackbrained, insane, crackers, crackpot, cranky [dialect], crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, fruity [slang], gaga, haywire, kooky (also kookie), loco [slang], loony (also looney), loony tunes (or looney tunes), lunatic, mad, maniacal (also maniac), mental, meshuga (or meshugge also meshugah or meshuggah), moonstruck, non compos mentis, nuts, nutty, psycho, psychotic, scatty [chiefly British], screwy, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacko (also whacko), wacky (also whacky), wud [chiefly Scottish]

Antonyms: balanced, compos mentis, sane, sound, uncrazy

Related Words: dotty, fey, loopy, off, potty [chiefly British], teched (or tetched), touched; aberrant, delirious, delusional, delusionary, disordered, disturbed, neurotic, obsessive-compulsive, paranoiac (also paranoic), paranoid (also paranoidal), schizoid, schizophrenic, sociopathic; eccentric, odd, oddball, pixilated (also pixillated), queer, strange; foolish, senseless, witless; irrational, unreasonable; amok (or amuck), ape, ballistic, bananas, berserk, nuclear; depressed; distracted, distraught, frantic, frenzied, haywire, hysterical (also hysteric), raving, wigged-out; fixated, monomaniac, monomaniacal, obsessed

Near Antonyms: clear, lucid, rational, reasonable; judicious, sensible, wise; healthy, normal, well-adjusted; unneurotic

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Rhymes with CRACKED

act, backed, bract, fact, packed, pact, stacked, tact, tracked, tract