Craziest
adjectiveMost wildly foolish, absurd, or remarkable of a group.
How to spell craziest
8 letters · 3 syllables
How to pronounce craziest
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What does craziest mean?
- adjectiveMost wildly foolish, absurd, or remarkable of a group.
Craziest in a sentence
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That road trip was the craziest thing we ever did together.
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Of all his schemes, opening a shop overnight was the craziest.
Where does craziest come from?
Language of origin: Old Norse
This is the superlative of the adjective 'crazy', which grew out of the verb 'craze'. In late Middle English 'craze' meant to shatter, break, or fill with tiny cracks, and it most likely came into English from Old Norse, where words like 'krasa' meant to crush or crackle. From the literal idea of something cracked or broken, the sense extended to a mind that was broken or unsound, so 'crazy' came to mean mentally disturbed by the 1500s. Over time the word softened in everyday speech to mean wildly foolish, absurd, or extremely exciting. The spelling trap sits in the ending: 'crazy' loses its final 'y' and gains 'i' before '-est', so the word is spelled with 'zi' and never with a stray 'y'.
How the word is built
- craz- (from craze: to shatter, weaken)
- -y (adjective suffix)
- -est (superlative suffix; y changes to i)
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