Lazy vs. Crazy

Lazy vs. Crazy — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Lazy and Crazy

Lazyadjective

Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.

Get out of bed, you lazy lout!

Crazyadjective

Insane; lunatic; demented.

His ideas were both frightening and crazy.

Lazyadjective

Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.

I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.

Crazyadjective

Out of control.

When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.

Lazyadjective

Sluggish; slow-moving.

We strolled along beside a lazy stream.

Crazyadjective

Overly excited or enthusiastic.

He went crazy when he won.
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Lazyadjective

Lax:

Crazyadjective

In love; experiencing romantic feelings.

Why is she so crazy about him?

Lazyadjective

Droopy.

a lazy-eared rabbit

Crazyadjective

(informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.

The game had a crazy ending.

Lazyadjective

(optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.

Crazyadjective

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

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Lazyadjective

Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.

Crazyadverb

(slang) Very, extremely.

That trick was crazy good.

Lazyadjective

(comptheory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.

a lazy algorithm

Crazynoun

An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.

Lazyadjective

Wicked; vicious.

Crazynoun

Eccentric behaviour; lunacy.

Lazyverb

(informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.

Crazynoun

someone deranged and possibly dangerous

Lazynoun

A lazy person.

Crazyadjective

affected with madness or insanity;

a man who had gone mad

Lazynoun

(obsolete) Sloth (animal).

Crazyadjective

foolish; totally unsound;

an impractical solutiona crazy schemehalf-baked ideasa screwball proposal without a prayer of working

Lazyadjective

moving slowly and gently;

up a lazy riverlazy white cloudsat a lazy pace

Crazyadjective

marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness;

she was crazy about himgaga over the rock group's new albumhe was infatuated with her

Lazyadjective

disinclined to work or exertion;

faineant kings under whose rule the country languishedan indolent hanger-ontoo lazy to wash the dishesshiftless idle youthslothful employeesthe unemployed are not necessarily work-shy

Crazyadjective

possessed by inordinate excitement;

the crowd went crazywas crazy to try his new bicycle

Crazyadjective

bizarre or fantastic;

had a crazy dreamwore a crazy hat

Crazyadjective

intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with;

crazy about cars and racing