Adjective

(en adjective)

Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}

Amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.

* 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:

Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp

, chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}

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.