Crazy vs Amusing - What's the difference?
crazy | amusing | Related terms |
Insane; lunatic; demented.
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Overly excited or enthusiastic.
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In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
(informal) Unexpected; surprising.
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
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An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
Entertaining.
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Funny, hilarious.
Crazy is a related term of amusing.
As adjectives the difference between crazy and amusing
is that crazy is insane; lunatic; demented while amusing is entertaining.As an adverb crazy
is (slang) very, extremely.As a noun crazy
is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.As a verb amusing is
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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.
Synonyms
* * (out of control) (l) * deranged * zany * locoDerived terms
* craze * crazily * craziness * crazing * crazy bone * crazy like a fox * crazy mad * crazy paving * crazy quilt * like crazyNoun
(crazies)Synonyms
* lunatic * mad man * nut ball * nut caseamusing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
citation, passage=They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For 30 seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.}}
