Crazy vs Unhinged - What's the difference?
crazy | unhinged |
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.
(unhinge)
Not furnished with a hinge.
(philately, of a stamp) Not having ever been mounted using a stamp hinge.
(usually, humorous) Mentally ill.
As adjectives the difference between crazy and unhinged
is that crazy is insane; lunatic; demented while unhinged is not furnished with a hinge.As an adverb crazy
is very, extremely.As a noun crazy
is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.As a verb unhinged is
past tense of unhinge.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 caseunhinged
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- an unhinged door
