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crazier

adjectiveA2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,713 of 15,258mostly spoken

Crazier means more wild or unreasonable. Crazier still, it gets crazier, crazier than that.

It is the comparative of crazy and takes than. It gets crazier is the standard way of introducing a further absurdity in a story. Note that crazy has a heavy history as a word for mental illness and is generally avoided in that sense now, while surviving unremarked in these everyday uses — crazy busy, crazy about her, crazy paving.

Definitions of crazier

  1. 1adjectivecrazierMore wild or unreasonable.A2+

    “The party got crazier as the night went on.”

crazier is a comparative of wildness.

Where it comes from

crazy comes from craze + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare crack up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”), crackpot. Compare typologically чо́кнутый.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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crazier in the wild

  • The story centers on a man experiencing a midlife crisis whose world is turned upside down when he adopts a Border Collie crazier than he is.

    A Dog Year

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.