Cray vs Insane - What's the difference?
cray | insane |
(slang) Crazy.
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Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.
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Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
Causing insanity or madness.
Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
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As adjectives the difference between cray and insane
is that cray is crazy while insane is exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.As a noun cray
is a crayfish or lobster.cray
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From crazy by shortening.Adjective
(en adjective)NFL commish slaps Steelers in face with weak punishment of Seymour", The Altoona Mirror (Altoona, Pennsylvania), 23 November 2010:
- That small of a fine for that kind of blatant disregard is cray .
Sharm x Savoy + Kiss = Happy RWD", Fazer , Issue 127, September 2012, page 80:
- Before his set, RWD somehow found time to back a quick vodka shot in the Ice Bar downstairs - yes we're aware an ice bar in the desert is cray .
20 Things Your Ten Year Old Self Could Do at Cornell", Slope , Spring 2013, page 18:
- Also, make sure you look both ways first, because the traffic is cray .
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Adjective
(en adjective)- What is the cause of insanity?
Nobody can answer such a sweeping question as that,
but we know that certain diseases, such as syphilis, break
down and destroy the brain cells and result in insanity. In
fact, about one-half of all mental diseases can be attributed
to such physical causes as brain lesions, alcohol, toxins,
and injuries. But the other half—and this is the appalling
part of the story—the other half of the people who go in-
sane' apparently have nothing organically wrong with
their brain cells. In post-mortem examinations, when their
brain tissues are studied under the highest-powered micro-
scopes, they are found to be apparently just as healthy as
yours and mine.
Why do these people go ' insane ?
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