crazed

Thân thiện

A crazed artist painted wildly on a large canvas.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Driven insane; mentally deranged, especially as manifested in a wild or frenzied manner: Describes a state of madness or extreme irrationality, often with visible agitation.
   • Intensely obsessed or enthusiastic to an excessive degree: Used informally to describe someone who is extremely focused on or passionate about something.

Usage

• The primary use is to describe a person or animal that has become insane, often implying violent, wild, or uncontrolled behavior as a result.
• It can also describe objects, particularly surfaces like pottery or glass, that are covered with a network of fine cracks. However, this is a distinct meaning related to the verb "to craze" and is often considered separately.
• In informal contexts, it can function as an intensifier similar to "crazy," describing extreme enthusiasm.

Examples

• Adjective (driven insane):
  • The crazed man ran through the streets shouting.
  • They were attacked by a crazed dog.
• Adjective (intensely obsessed - informal):
  • He's crazed about video games.
  • She has a crazed look in her eyes when she talks about her project.

Advanced Usage

• "crazed with [emotion]": Used to indicate that a powerful emotion (like grief, jealousy, or rage) has caused a temporary state of madness.
  • He was crazed with anger after hearing the news.
• As a past participle, it often implies an external cause or a process that led to the state of being insane.
  • The prisoners were crazed by years of isolation.

Variants and Related Words

• Craze (verb): To make someone insane; to develop fine cracks on a surface.
  • The tragedy crazed him. (made him insane)
  • The glaze on the pottery crazed in the kiln. (developed cracks)
• Crazy (adjective): The more common adjective meaning insane or foolish. "Crazed" often implies a more acute, active, or caused state.
• Insane (adjective): The formal/legal synonym for mentally deranged.

Synonyms

• Deranged: Mentally unbalanced.
• Mad: Insane (common usage).
• Frenzied: Wildly excited or uncontrolled.
• Maniacal: Characteristic of a maniac; wildly violent.

Antonyms

• Sane: Of sound mind; rational.
• Rational: Based on reason or logic.
• Composed: Calm and in control of one's feelings.

Related Phrases/Idioms

• Like a crazed person/animal: Behaving with wild, uncontrolled energy.
  • He worked like a crazed person to meet the deadline.
• Crazed fan: An extremely obsessive and enthusiastic fan.
  • The crazed fan waited outside the hotel for three days.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. driven insane

Từ đồng nghĩa

• deranged
• half-crazed