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adjective

ˈkrā-zē How to pronounce crazy (audio)
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as in foolish
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment a crazy plan to climb Mount Everest without proper equipment

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as in excited
showing urgent desire or interest crazy for the latest entertainment news

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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

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as in absurd
conceived or made without regard for reason or reality the mansion is a crazy construction of several different styles

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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

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as in uneven
inclined or twisted to one side surrounded by crazy stacks of books, she began writing her paper

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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

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crazy

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noun

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

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Recent Examples of crazy
Adjective
On Friday, however, one man entered the conversation with what may have been the craziest take any college football fan has heard in years. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026 Nannies Mitchell Bienvenue and Taylor Hayward, two stars of Hulu’s new reality series Million Dollar Nannies, sat down with PEOPLE to discuss some of their craziest stories from the job, including their non-negotiables while at work. — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 17 July 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 See All Example Sentences for crazy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crazy
  1. stupid
  2. excited
  3. bizarre
  4. absurd
  5. insane
  6. uneven
  7. twisted
  8. revolutionary
Adjective
  • There are plenty of videos from Yellowstone National Park involving tourists doing breathtakingly stupid things around wild animals.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026
  • Even when Romanzy goes off on how stupid and ugly Caleb is — and gossips that his parents abandoned him because something must be wrong with him — Mary goes along with it.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026
Definition of stupid
Adjective
  • Nguyen was excited to enjoy a warm summer outdoors before the smoke left her hesitant to step outside for her routine runs to the National Mall and daily walks with her dog.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • McKeon was excited to explore her chemistry with executive producer Gina Wendkos, who worked on the show alongside Tom Palmer, Jonathan Axelrod, James Widdoes and Amy Sherman-Palladino.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
Definition of excited
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  • But at the end of this bizarre game in Miami, this silly 6-4 thriller, this giddy attacking exhibition of some of the world’s best players, and some of the world’s worst defending, England were on the winning side.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • Southwest’s bizarre seat assignments and enforcement policies may have had operational roots, but customers assumed the worst.
    — Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of bizarre
Adjective
  • That’s absurd for a company generating $14 billion in yearly free cash flow.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • In some ways, watching this late-career Messi has become just as compelling an experience as watching the one who recorded a quite absurd 91 goals and 22 assists for Barcelona and Argentina in 2012.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 19 July 2026
Definition of absurd
Adjective
  • To see that journey completely through to the end has been insane.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 July 2026
  • The stupidity and greed of the status quo threatens to drive her insane.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
Definition of insane
Adjective
  • The uneven overall performance can be traced back — first and foremost — to a leaky defense.
    — Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2026
  • The uneven elevation of Spain’s mountainous regions could obstruct viewing the eclipse, as could a line of trees or a smattering of buildings.
    — Catherine Tansey, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 July 2026
Definition of uneven
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  • Visitors will enter the Price family’s secluded vacation home in the woods, succumb to ferocious flesh-eating Deadites and pass through other twisted scenes from the latest movie in the Evil Dead Burn haunted house.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
  • Massive Attack, Tricky’s alma mater, once trod similar ground, and several songs here bring to mind their own twisted rock opus Mezzanine, for better or worse.
    — Ben Cardew, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026
Definition of twisted
Noun
  • The monarchy was overthrown in the February Revolution of 1917, and the tsar and his family became prisoners of the revolutionaries.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026
  • The original Jacobins were the most radical faction of the French revolutionaries.
    — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Definition of revolutionary

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