Rabid vs Crazy - What's the difference?
rabid | crazy |
Affected with rabies.
Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.
Furious; raging; extremely violent.
very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; comparable to one with rabies.
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 adjectives the difference between rabid and crazy
is that rabid is affected with rabies while crazy is insane; lunatic; demented.As an adverb crazy is
very, extremely.As a noun crazy is
an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.rabid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a rabid dog or fox
- a rabid virus
- a rabid socialist
- rabid Green Bay Packers fans
Quotations
* The rabid flight, Of winds that ruin ships. -- ChapmanAnagrams
*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.
