crazy

adj

1. insane, mad, demented, lunatic, deranged, crazed; of unsound mind, Latin, non compos mentis; daft, Inf. daffy, Chiefly Brit. Inf. potty, Inf. dotty, Inf. crackpot; unbalanced, touched, Inf. half-baked, Brit. Sl. bonkers, unhinged; brainsick, Sl. kooky, Sl. meshuga; All Sl. balmy, dippy, batty, bats, cuckoo, buggy, bughouse, bugs, screwy, wacky, wacko, goofy, loony, squirrelly, bananas, nuts, nutty, nutty as a fruitcake.

2. out of one's head, out of one's mind, Sl. loco, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare; not all there, not quite right, not right upstairs, Inf. out in left field, Inf. off the wall; stark raving mad, Inf. cracked, Inf. mental, Sl. schizo, Inf. off one's rocker, Inf. off one's trolley, Brit. Si. off one's chump; All Sl. have bats in one's belfry, have a few buttons missing, have a few loose screws.

3. maniacal, wild, Archaic. wood, raving, hysterical, madding, frantic, frenzied, delirious; out of control, Inf. haywire, berserk; beside oneself, at one's wit's end.

4. absurd, silly, inane, fatuous, foolish; crack-brained, Scot. doiled, Sl. cockeyed, Scot, and North Eng. glaikit; ridiculous, laughable, risible, derisible, ludicrous, Sl. for the birds; asinine, anserine, idiotic, Inf. moronic, imbecilic; childish, puerile, immature.

5. stupid, simple-minded, bird-brained, feebleminded, dull-witted; harebrained, light-minded, lightheaded, giddy; scatterbrained, absent-minded, confused; muddled, muddlepated, bemused.

6. impractical, injudicious, unsensible; unfounded, groundless, unsound; haphazard, unconnected; irrational, illogical, unreasonable; preposterous, extravagant, excessive; unrealistic, half-baked; senseless, nonsensical, pointless; irrelevant, inconsequential, purposeless; inappropriate, inept, improper, incongruous, inconsistent; imprudent, indiscreet; unwise, ill-considered, ill-suited, ill-advised; short-sighted, careless, unwary, irresponsible; reckless, rash, harum-scarum.

7. enthusiastic, excited, avid, eager, zealous; ardent, fervid, fervent, passionate, impassioned; fanatical, Inf. wild, dithyrambic; intense, rabid, vehement.

8. infatuated, enamored by or with, U.S. Sl. ape over or for, keen on or about, wild about, mad about or after, fond of, Inf. gone on; U.S. Sl. all hopped up about, Sl. hepped up or over, Sl. hot about or for or on, Sl. steamed up about, Sl. nuts about or on, desirous, avid for or of, covetous.

9. peculiar, strange, offbeat, queer, odd, flighty, eccentric; fantastic, fabulous, imaginary, illusory, illusive, chimerical; incredible, inconceivable, unimaginable, implausible.

10. like crazy

Slang. ardently, fervently, passionately, intensely; devotedly, devoutly; enthusiastically, madly, furiously, excitedly; wildly, impetuously, hastily, hurriedly, recklessly.