Weird vs. Crazy

(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.

(archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

(archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.

(archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.

Example: ‘There was a weird light shining above the hill.’;

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

Example: ‘There are lots of weird people in this place.’;

Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

Example: ‘It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.’;

(archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.

A prediction.

A spell or charm.

That which comes to pass; a fact.

The Fates (personified).

(transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

(transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure.

Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.

A spell or charm.

Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.

Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.

Example: ‘Myself too had weird seizures.’; ‘Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.’; ‘The weird sisters, hand in hand,Posters of the sea and land.’;

To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.

Fate personified; one of the three Weird Sisters

suggesting the operation of supernatural influences;

Example: ‘an eldritch screech’; ‘the three weird sisters’; ‘stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures’; ‘an unearthly light’; ‘he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din’;

strikingly odd or unusual;

Example: ‘some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow’;

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’;