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Dramatic vs Crazy - What's the difference?

dramatic | crazy |

As adjectives the difference between dramatic and crazy

is that dramatic is dramatic while crazy is insane; lunatic; demented.

As an adverb crazy is

(slang) very, extremely.

As a noun crazy is

an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.

dramatic

English

Alternative forms

* dramatick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the drama.
  • *
  • Striking in appearance or effect.
  • *
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Best and brightest , passage=Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade. Before 2000 half of the country’s rural adults had finished only primary school. Yet international rankings now put the country’s students well ahead of America’s in science and maths (the strongest predictor of future earnings), even as the country spends far less per pupil. }}
  • Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
  • Derived terms

    * nondramatic

    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