crazier; craziest
1
a
usually offensive
: not mentally sound : marked by thought or action that lacks reason : insane sense 1b
yelling like a crazy person
—not used technically
b(1)
: impractical
a crazy plan
(2)
sometimes offensive
: erratic
crazy drivers
c
: being out of the ordinary : unusual
a taste for crazy hats
2
a
: distracted with desire or excitement
a thrill-crazy mob
The fans went crazy when their team won the championship.
b
: absurdly fond : infatuated
He's crazy about the girl.
c
: passionately preoccupied : obsessed
crazy about boats
craziness
noun
plural crazinesses
… an inside view of the craziness of Hollywood and the media moguls who run it.
—
Emily Melton
Emily Melton
plural crazies
usually offensive
: someone who is or acts mentally unsound
especially
: such a person associated with a radical or extremist political cause
… are convinced that Wilson thinks they're rubes, bumpkins, or crazies, and wants to replace them with a legislature full of moderate clones of himself. —Fred Barnes
Fred Barnes Examples of crazy in a Sentence
Adjective
He's been acting kind of crazy lately.
There are a lot of crazy drivers on the streets.
You are crazy to have paid so much for this car.
You would be crazy not to accept their offer!
What a crazy thing to do!
Noun
A bunch of crazies live there.
started yelling in the middle of the store like a crazy man
Adverb
I bought some crazy good stuff there.
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Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
The Los Angeles Dodgers are only a few wins away from winning back-to-back titles despite the crazy year the team has had.
—Shaun McAvoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
The campus crazies demanding safe spaces seem to have polluted the entire culture with fear and anxiety.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 May 2020
Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
For a smart woman hyper-alert to the nature of language, Adriaan’s oblique, infrequent text messages create a crazy-making predicament.
—Washington Post, 13 July 2021
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Adjective
That was towards the end of his presidency, so we were used to all the crazy issues that people would take with us.
—Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
The Los Angeles Dodgers are only a few wins away from winning back-to-back titles despite the crazy year the team has had.
—Shaun McAvoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
That means, at times, policing its own—and not letting the crazies run the asylum.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
The campus crazies demanding safe spaces seem to have polluted the entire culture with fear and anxiety.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 May 2020
Adverb
His final chapters are dedicated to these crazy-making politics.
—Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
For a smart woman hyper-alert to the nature of language, Adriaan’s oblique, infrequent text messages create a crazy-making predicament.
—Washington Post, 13 July 2021
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“Crazy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crazy. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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