Dramatic vs Crazy - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to the drama.
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Striking in appearance or effect.
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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.
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
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Alternative forms
* dramatickAdjective
(en adjective)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. }}
Derived terms
* nondramaticcrazy
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Adjective
(er)- Over moist and crazy brains.
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- 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.
