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Courage vs Crazy - What's the difference?

courage | crazy |

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

(-)
  • The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
  • "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.
  • The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
  • "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 also

    Derived terms

    * courageous * discourage * encourage

    Verb

    (courag)
  • (label) To encourage.
  • *:
  • *: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.
  • See also

    * fearlessness * bield English abstract nouns ----

    crazy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Insane; lunatic; demented.
  • * 1663 , (Samuel Butler), (Hudibras)
  • Over moist and crazy brains.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= 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.}}
  • Out of control.
  • Overly excited or enthusiastic.
  • * R. B. Kimball
  • The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
  • In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
  • (informal) Unexpected; surprising.
  • Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
  • * Macaulay
  • Piles of mean and crazy houses.
  • * Addison
  • One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
  • * Jeffrey
  • They got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.

    Synonyms

    * * (out of control) (l) * deranged * zany * loco

    Derived terms

    * craze * crazily * craziness * crazing * crazy bone * crazy like a fox * crazy mad * crazy paving * crazy quilt * like crazy

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (slang) Very, extremely.
  • ''That trick was crazy good

    Noun

    (crazies)
  • An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
  • Synonyms

    * lunatic * mad man * nut ball * nut case