different between crazy vs laughable
crazy
English
Etymology
From craze +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?e?zi/
- Rhymes: -e?zi
Adjective
crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)
- (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.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 203:
- (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.
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- Of unsound mind; insane, demented. [from 17th c.]
- Out of control.
- Very excited or enthusiastic.
- 1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?
- The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
- 1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?
- In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
- (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)
- (slang) Very, extremely.
Translations
Noun
crazy (countable and uncountable, plural crazies)
- 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?
- 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
- (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
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laughable
English
Etymology
From laugh +? -able.
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?la?f?bl?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l??f?bl?/, /?læf?bl?/
- (US) enPR: ?l?f?bl?, IPA(key): /?læf?bl?/
Adjective
laughable (comparative more laughable, superlative most laughable)
- (now rare) Fitted to excite laughter; humorous.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91:
- At this our first dinner at the Government House a very laughable incident occurred.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91:
- Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision.
Synonyms
- droll, ludicrous, mirthful, comical, risible, ridiculous
Derived terms
- laughableness
- laughably
Translations
laughable From the web:
- laughable meaning
- laughable what does it mean
- what's so laughable
- what do laughable mean
- what does laughable person mean
- what does laughable
- what does laughable sentence
- what is laughable spanish
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