Amok vs Crazy - What's the difference?
amok | crazy |
Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous
In a frenzy of violence, or on a killing spree; berserk
One who runs amok; in Malay and Moro/Philippine culture, one who attempts to kill many others, especially expecting that they will be killed themselves.
Insane; lunatic; demented.
* 1663 , (Samuel Butler), (Hudibras)
* , chapter=5
, title= Out of control.
Overly excited or enthusiastic.
* R. B. Kimball
In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
(informal) Unexpected; surprising.
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
* Macaulay
* Addison
* Jeffrey
An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
As adverbs the difference between amok and crazy
is that amok is out of control, especially when armed and dangerous while crazy is (slang) very, extremely.As nouns the difference between amok and crazy
is that amok is one who runs amok; in malay and moro/philippine culture, one who attempts to kill many others, especially expecting that they will be killed themselves while crazy is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.As an adjective crazy is
insane; lunatic; demented.amok
English
Alternative forms
* amuck, amockAdverb
(wikipedia amok) (en adverb)Usage notes
Almost exclusively used in the phrase run amok.Derived terms
*Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----crazy
English
Adjective
(er)- Over moist and crazy brains.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
- The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
- Piles of mean and crazy houses.
- One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
- They got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
