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Crazy vs Frenzy - What's the difference?

crazy | frenzy |

As adjectives the difference between crazy and frenzy

is that crazy is insane; lunatic; demented while frenzy is mad; frantic.

As nouns the difference between crazy and frenzy

is that crazy is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot while frenzy is a state of wild activity or panic.

As an adverb crazy

is very, extremely.

As a verb frenzy is

to render frantic.

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

    frenzy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * phrenzy, phrensy (obsolete)

    Noun

    (frenzies)
  • A state of wild activity or panic.
    • She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.
  • A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
  • * Addison
    • All else is towering frenzy and distraction.
  • * William Shakespeare, ''A midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, scene 1:
    • The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.

    Derived terms

    * feeding frenzy

    Related terms

    * frantic * frenetic * frenzied

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Mad; frantic.
  • * 1678 John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress :
    • They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head.

    Verb

  • (uncommon) To render frantic.

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