Crazy vs. Evil

Insane; lunatic; demented.

Example: ‘His ideas were both frightening and crazy.’;

Out of control.

Example: ‘When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.’;

Overly excited or enthusiastic.

Example: ‘He went crazy when he won.’;

In love; experiencing romantic feelings.

Example: ‘Why is she so crazy about him?’;

(informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.

Example: ‘The game had a crazy ending.’;

Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.

(slang) Very, extremely.

Example: ‘That trick was crazy good.’;

An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.

Eccentric behaviour; lunacy.

Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.

Example: ‘Piles of mean andcrazy houses.’; ‘One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.’; ‘They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.’;

Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.

Example: ‘Over moist and crazy brains.’;

Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.

Example: ‘The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.’;

someone deranged and possibly dangerous

affected with madness or insanity;

Example: ‘a man who had gone mad’;

foolish; totally unsound;

Example: ‘an impractical solution’; ‘a crazy scheme’; ‘half-baked ideas’; ‘a screwball proposal without a prayer of working’;

marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness;

Example: ‘she was crazy about him’; ‘gaga over the rock group's new album’; ‘he was infatuated with her’;

possessed by inordinate excitement;

Example: ‘the crowd went crazy’; ‘was crazy to try his new bicycle’;

bizarre or fantastic;

Example: ‘had a crazy dream’; ‘wore a crazy hat’;

intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with;

Example: ‘crazy about cars and racing’;

mad, especially as manifested in wild or aggressive behaviour

Example: ‘Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor’; ‘a crazy look’;

extremely angry

Example: ‘the noise was driving me crazy’;

foolish

Example: ‘it was crazy to hope that good might come out of this mess’;

extremely enthusiastic

Example: ‘I'm crazy about Cindy’; ‘a football-crazy bunch of boys’;

(of an angle) appearing absurdly out of place or unlikely

Example: ‘the monument leant at a crazy angle’;

(of a ship or building) full of cracks or flaws; unsound.

extremely

Example: ‘I've been crazy busy’;

a mad person

Example: ‘keep that crazy away from me’;

Intending to harm; malevolent.

Example: ‘an evil plot to kill innocent people’;

Morally corrupt.

Example: ‘Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?’;

Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

Example: ‘an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop’;

undesirable; harmful; bad practice

Example: ‘Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.’;

Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.

Example: ‘The evils of society include murder and theft.’; ‘Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.’;

Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm.

(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.

Example: ‘A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit.’;

Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

Example: ‘Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,When death's approach is seen so terrible.’;

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

Example: ‘Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.’; ‘The owl shrieked at thy birth - an evil sign.’; ‘Evil news rides post, while good news baits.’; ‘It almost led him to believe in the evil eye.’;

Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; - opposed to good.

Example: ‘Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought.’; ‘The evil that men do lives after them.’;

Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.

Example: ‘The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.’;

malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.

Example: ‘He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.’;

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

Example: ‘It went evil with his house.’; ‘The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us.’;

morally objectionable behavior

that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune;

Example: ‘the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones’;

the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice;

Example: ‘attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world’;

morally bad or wrong;

Example: ‘evil purposes’; ‘an evil influence’; ‘evil deeds’;

having the nature of vice

tending to cause great harm

having or exerting a malignant influence;

Example: ‘malevolent stars’; ‘a malefic force’;

Evil, in a general sense, is defined by what it is not—the opposite or absence of good. It can be an extremely broad concept, although in everyday usage it is often more narrowly used to talk about profound wickedness.