Courage vs Crazy - What's the difference?
courage | crazy |
The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
(label) To encourage.
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*:And wete yow wel sayd kynge Arthur vnto Vrres syster I shalle begynne to handle hym and serche vnto my power not presumyng vpon me that I am soo worthy to hele youre sone by my dedes / but I wille courage other men of worshyp to doo as I wylle doo
*(William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
*:Paul writeth unto Timothyto courage him.
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 nouns the difference between courage and crazy
is that courage is courage while crazy is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.As an adjective crazy is
insane; lunatic; demented.As an adverb crazy is
(slang) very, extremely.courage
English
Noun
(-)- "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before." —
- It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
- "Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it." —
- He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* courageous * discourage * encourageVerb
(courag)See also
* fearlessness * bield English abstract nouns ----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.