Maniac vs Crazy - What's the difference?
maniac | crazy |
An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania.
A fanatic, a person with an obsession.
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.
As nouns the difference between maniac and crazy
is that maniac is an insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania while crazy is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.As an adjective crazy is
insane; lunatic; demented.As an adverb crazy is
very, extremely.maniac
English
Alternative forms
* maniack (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* brainiac * trainiacAnagrams
* *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.