Synonyms of craziness

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noun (1)

as in insanity

lack of good sense or judgment

this latest example of juvenile craziness does not incline us to trust you

Synonyms & Similar Words

• insanity
• madness
• simplicity
• absurdity
• wackiness
• zaniness
• silliness
• foolishness
• nuttiness
• lunacy
• daftness
• preposterousness
• inanity
• fatuousness
• unwisdom
• stupidness
• imbecility
• nonsensicalness
• dottiness
• witlessness
• balminess
• brainlessness
• senselessness
• idiocy
• asininity
• stupidity
• folly
• fatuity
• dullness
• dippiness
• irrationality
• slowness
• ridiculousness
• dumbness
• mindlessness
• obtuseness
• simpleness
• dopiness
• unreasonableness
• feeblemindedness
• denseness
• weirdness
• kookiness
• oafishness
• doltishness
• simplemindedness
• ludicrousness
• fallacy
• gormlessness
• vacuity
• dim-wittedness
• laughableness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sanity
• wisdom
• prudence
• soundness
• sagacity
• rationality
• validity
• reasonableness
• sensibleness
• sapience
• perception
• reasonability
• logicality
• insight
• sageness
• sagaciousness
• discernment
• logicalness
• rationalness
• percipience

crazy

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adjective (1)

ˈkrā-zē 

1

as in foolish

showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment

a crazy plan to climb Mount Everest without proper equipment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• foolish
• stupid
• silly
• mad
• absurd
• idiotic
• irrational
• ridiculous
• lunatic
• wacky
• fool
• dumb
• zany
• loony
• insane
• unreasonable
• nutty
• simple
• kooky
• nonsensical
• wacko
• asinine
• cuckoo
• daft
• unwise
• preposterous
• daffy
• weak
• fatuous
• dippy
• batty
• jerky
• slow
• gaga
• senseless
• unreasoning
• sappy
• out to lunch
• screwball
• harebrained
• crackpot
• witless
• dotty
• inept
• simpleminded
• barmy
• crackbrained
• loony tunes
• brainless
• weak-minded
• balmy
• cockeyed
• moronic
• meshuga
• half-baked
• tomfool
• bubbleheaded
• illogical
• lunkheaded
• featherheaded
• unreasoned
• fruity
• clueless
• thoughtless
• dull
• half-witted
• imbecile
• dopey
• ludicrous
• dense
• unintelligent
• dorky
• mindless
• obtuse
• feebleminded
• brain-dead
• opaque
• dim
• vacuous
• lamebrain
• doltish
• thickheaded
• laughable
• invalid
• pinheaded
• thick
• fallacious
• dunderheaded
• farcical
• empty-headed
• oafish
• nonrational
• soft
• softheaded
• unsound
• surd
• gormless
• knuckleheaded
• clownish
• dim-witted
• chuckleheaded
• airheaded
• notional
• slow-witted
• ill-advised
• boobish
• buffoonish
• chowderheaded
• birdbrained
• unconsidered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wise
• sound
• sane
• sensible
• prudent
• reasonable
• judicious
• clever
• intelligent
• smart
• bright
• valid
• logical
• rational
• sagacious
• sage
• sapient
• brainy
• well-advised

2

as in excited

showing urgent desire or interest

crazy for the latest entertainment news

Synonyms & Similar Words

• excited
• enthusiastic
• avid
• eager
• anxious
• hungry
• keen
• nuts
• ardent
• pumped
• impatient
• happy
• bonkers
• greedy
• wild
• great
• thirsty
• enthused
• interested
• desirous
• voracious
• antsy
• solicitous
• gung ho
• stoked
• ready
• agog
• geeked
• juiced
• hot
• hopped-up
• chomping at the bit
• champing at the bit
• gaga
• obsessed
• willing
• raring
• hepped up
• engaged
• ambitious
• athirst
• longing
• glad
• restless
• covetous
• craving
• pining
• breathless
• restive
• game
• amenable
• appetent
• inclined
• hankering
• hung up
• unreluctant
• disposed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• indifferent
• apathetic
• casual
• unenthusiastic
• unconcerned
• uninterested
• nonchalant
• disinterested
• aloof
• detached
• incurious
• insouciant
• reluctant
• impassive
• stolid
• hesitant
• lackadaisical
• unwilling
• lukewarm
• uneager
• languid
• averse
• halfhearted
• languorous
• spiritless
• loath
• disinclined

3

as in bizarre

different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion

a downtown musician with crazy notions of what's stylish and what's not

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bizarre
• weird
• strange
• funny
• odd
• curious
• erratic
• peculiar
• remarkable
• eccentric
• unusual
• abnormal
• wacky
• wild
• screwy
• kooky
• off-the-wall
• unique
• quirky
• outlandish
• kinky
• funky
• offbeat
• unconventional
• quaint
• queer
• outrageous
• weirdo
• cranky
• uncommon
• out-of-the-way
• outré
• rare
• extraordinary
• way-out
• far-out
• bizarro
• rum
• fantastic
• off-kilter
• freaky
• freak
• queerish
• outstanding
• freakish
• shocking
• phenomenal
• spaced-out
• flaky
• noticeable
• aberrant
• atypical
• striking
• prominent
• out-there
• conspicuous
• phantasmagoric
• notable
• singular
• idiosyncratic
• puzzling
• perplexing
• baffling
• unwonted
• atrocious
• salient
• unorthodox
• bewildering
• confounding
• nonconformist
• crotchety
• mystifying
• uncustomary
• addlepated
• nonmainstream

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• normal
• typical
• ordinary
• usual
• average
• standard
• everyday
• commonplace
• routine
• garden
• conservative
• prosaic
• conventional
• unremarkable
• familiar
• predictable
• unexceptional
• run-of-the-mill
• common
• regular
• expected
• workaday
• frequent
• conformist
• customary
• habitual
• knee-jerk
• wonted

4

as in absurd

conceived or made without regard for reason or reality

the mansion is a crazy construction of several different styles

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bizarre
• absurd
• insane
• foolish
• unreal
• strange
• fantastic
• wild
• fanciful
• ridiculous
• nonsensical
• incredible
• curious
• preposterous
• weird
• funny
• off the wall
• odd
• peculiar
• grotesque
• unbelievable
• eccentric
• inconceivable
• implausible
• unthinkable
• unimaginable
• extravagant
• wacky
• quirky
• outlandish
• ludicrous
• kinky
• queer
• surreal
• screwy
• quaint
• laughable
• kooky
• nightmarish
• out-of-the-way
• farcical
• outré
• way-out
• far-out
• Alice-in-Wonderland
• dreamlike
• bizarro
• queerish
• Kafkaesque

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reasonable
• realistic

5

as in insane

usually offensive unable to think in a clear or sensible way

started yelling in the middle of the store like a crazy man

Synonyms & Similar Words

• insane
• psychotic
• mad
• maniacal
• nuts
• mental
• crazed
• psycho
• disturbed
• demented
• deranged
• unhinged
• loco
• irrational
• unbalanced
• nutty
• strange
• around the bend
• foolish
• eccentric
• bonkers
• daft
• batty
• out to lunch
• cracked
• obsessed
• certifiable
• haywire
• off
• depressed
• non compos mentis
• brainsick
• unreasonable
• queer
• ballistic
• fey
• unsound
• distraught
• frantic
• loopy
• bats
• distracted
• crackers
• off one's gourd
• wud
• delusional
• off one's rocker
• hysterical
• delirious
• off one's head
• oddball
• odd
• disordered
• nuclear
• delusionary
• out of one's head
• dotty
• aberrant
• touched
• berserk
• pixilated
• potty
• witless
• raving
• frenzied
• teched
• monomaniacal
• ape
• senseless
• fixated
• monomaniac
• bananas
• wigged-out
• amok

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sane
• sound
• reasonable
• balanced
• rational
• clear
• normal
• wise
• sensible
• uncrazy
• lucid
• compos mentis
• judicious
• healthy
• well-adjusted
• unneurotic

6

as in uneven

inclined or twisted to one side

surrounded by crazy stacks of books, she began writing her paper

Synonyms & Similar Words

• uneven
• tilted
• crooked
• oblique
• skewed
• lopsided
• awry
• tipping
• listing
• out of plumb
• pitched
• off-kilter
• askew
• slanted
• distorted
• unbalanced
• slanting
• asymmetrical
• cockeyed
• unsymmetrical
• aslant
• atilt
• cock-a-hoop
• disordered
• slantwise
• contorted
• irregular

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• even
• regular
• level
• uniform
• orderly
• balanced
• ordered
• symmetrical

7

as in twisted

marked by a long series of irregular curves

walked down a crazy path deep in the woods to a secluded swimming hole

Synonyms & Similar Words

• twisted
• winding
• curved
• twisting
• curving
• serpentine
• tortuous
• crooked
• devious
• curvy
• sinuous
• windy
• bending
• curling
• curled
• jagged
• spiral
• swirling
• zigzag
• spiraling
• uneven
• coiled
• rambling
• circling
• indirect
• coiling
• looping
• zigzagging
• roundabout
• circuitous
• wandering
• corkscrew
• irregular
• meandering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• linear
• direct
• straightaway

crazy

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noun (2)

as in revolutionary

a person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government

beleaguered government officials tried to dismiss the protesters as a bunch of crazies

Synonyms & Similar Words

• revolutionary
• extremist
• rebel
• radical
• revolutionist
• reformer
• anarchist
• leftist
• insurgent
• red
• lefty
• reformist
• progressive
• separatist
• agitator
• subversive
• young Turk
• secessionist
• separationist
• insurrectionist
• anarch

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• moderate
• conservative
• Tory
• reactionary
• traditionalist
• rightist
• middle-of-the-roader
• standpatter
• fuddy-duddy

crazy (about or over)

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adjective (2)

as in mad (about)

filled with an intense or excessive love for

he's just crazy about that new drummer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mad (about)
• sweet on
• infatuated (with)
• nuts (about)
• gone (on)
• obsessed
• besotted (by)
• enraptured (by)
• enamored (of)
• dotty (over)
• gaga (over)
• fascinated
• charmed
• stuck on
• enchanted
• hung up (on)
• silly
• foolish
• wild
• entranced
• bewitched
• captivated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cool
• detached
• unimpressed
• disillusioned
• disenchanted
• unenchanted
• heart-free

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of craziness

Noun

Meanwhile, the Spurs had to rush off the court to avoid getting caught up in all the craziness. — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 June 2026

This would have been ’95 and all the craziness around samples was happening. — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 9 June 2026

Adjective

Timing is everything The 2000s are considered a particularly crazy time for the California market. — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Inside are 20th-century favorites (Dalí, Picasso, Kandinsky) and crazy contemporary art. — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026

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

Phrases Containing craziness

• crazy (about or over)
• crazy quilt
• like crazy