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Crazy vs Dementate - What's the difference?

crazy | dementate |

As adjectives the difference between crazy and dementate

is that crazy is insane; lunatic; demented while dementate is (obsolete) deprived of reason.

As an adverb crazy

is (slang) very, extremely.

As a noun crazy

is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.

As a verb dementate is

(obsolete) to dement, to make crazy.

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

    See also

    * (wikipedia "crazy") English degree adverbs

    dementate

    English

    Verb

    (dementat)
  • (obsolete) To dement, to make crazy.
  • *, New York, 2001, p.117:
    • as if they had alllanded in the mad haven in the Euxine Sea of Daphne insana , which had a secret quality to dementate  […].

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Deprived of reason.
  • * Hammond
    • Arise, thou dementate sinner!
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