Crazy vs Stress - What's the difference?
crazy | stress |
Insane; lunatic; demented.
* 1663 , (Samuel Butler), (Hudibras)
* , chapter=5
, title= Out of control.
Overly excited or enthusiastic.
* R. B. Kimball
In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
(informal) Unexpected; surprising.
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
* Macaulay
* Addison
* Jeffrey
An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
(countable, physics) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by
(countable, physics) externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
(uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
(uncountable, phonetics) The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
(uncountable) Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
(uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
(Scotland, legal) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
(informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
To emphasise (words in speaking).
To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
As nouns the difference between crazy and stress
is that crazy is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot while stress is stress (emotional pressure).As an adjective crazy
is insane; lunatic; demented.As an adverb crazy
is (slang) very, extremely.crazy
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 casestress
English
Noun
- Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.
- Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* (phonetics) accent, emphasis * (on words in speaking) emphasis * (on a point) emphasisVerb
- “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
- I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.