different between crazy vs bizarre

English

Etymology

From craze +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?zi/
• Rhymes: -e?zi

Adjective

crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)

1. (obsolete) Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 203:

     Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition.

   • 1816, Francis Jeffrey, "Memoirs of Madame de Larochejaquelein", in The Edinburgh Review February 1816

     They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
2. (obsolete) Sickly, frail; diseased. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     Over moist and crazy brains.

   • One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.

   • c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin 1990, p. 61:

     My poor aunt has often told me […] how long she herself was apprehensive lest my crazy frame, which is now of common shape, should remain for ever crooked and deformed.

3. Of unsound mind; insane, demented. [from 17th c.]

4. Out of control.

5. Very excited or enthusiastic.
   • 1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?

     The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.

6. In love; experiencing romantic feelings.

7. (informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:insane
• (out of control): off the chain, nutso
• (insane; lunatic; demented): deranged, loco, nutso, zany

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

crazy (comparative more crazy, superlative most crazy)

1. (slang) Very, extremely.

Translations

Noun

crazy (countable and uncountable, plural crazies)

1. An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?

2. (slang, uncountable) Eccentric behaviour; lunacy.

Synonyms

• (insane or eccentric person): lunatic, mad man, nut ball, nut case, nutso, psychopath

Translations

See also

• crazy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre, formerly headlong, angry”). Either from Basque bizar (“a beard”) (the notion being that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French), or from Italian bizzarro.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??z??(?)/, /b??z??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??z??/, /b??z??/
• Homophone: bazaar (weak vowel merger)

Adjective

bizarre (comparative more bizarre or bizarrer, superlative most bizarre or bizarrest)

1. strangely unconventional in style or appearance.

Usage notes

• The compared forms with more and most are predominant. The alternative superlative bizarrest is fairly common, whereas the comparative bizarrer is very rare.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:strange

Translations

Further reading

• bizarre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• bizarre in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Brazier, brazier

Danish

Adjective

bizarre

1. definite of bizar
2. plural of bizar

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

bizarre

1. Inflected form of bizar

French

Etymology

From Italian bizzarro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.za?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Adjective

bizarre (plural bizarres)

1. bizarre, odd

   Comme c'est bizarre !

2. peculiar, quaint

Synonyms

• baroque
• étrange
• original
• singulier

Related terms

• bizarrement
• bizarrerie

Further reading

• “bizarre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• barriez

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

bizarre

1. inflection of bizarr:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Interlingua

Adjective

bizarre (comparative plus bizarre, superlative le plus bizarre)

1. bizarre