What's the difference between crazy and weird?

Crazy


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
  • (a.) Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
  • (a.) Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
  • (2) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
  • (3) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
  • (4) Updated at 8.17pm GMT 8.14pm GMT Yet another crazy statistic Seems like we’ve had a few of these today.
  • (5) Then their daughter comes in, or their wife, or their girlfriend, and they've just been to Pilates, and the next day they start looking up Pilates porn, or something crazy like that, and they feel even worse.
  • (6) The Hull City manager, Steve Bruce , has admitted his side need to pull off a couple of “crazy results” if they are to preserve their Premier League status in a frantic end-of-season run-in.
  • (7) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
  • (8) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
  • (9) "I remember ... crying and thinking, 'I'm just gonna go crazy on him one day.'"
  • (10) This may sound crazy, but with each passing day, Major League Soccer, which shares part of sporting calendar with the baseball season, becomes more and more of a long term threat to MLB, never mind what happens when the NFL kicks off in September.
  • (11) If you can't get your child into there … It's crazy.
  • (12) Her mother said she had made her “so proud” and her “gorgeous crazy” partner had made her world “a happy place”.
  • (13) "I knew that police officers had been hurt and things were on fire and it had all got crazy," the constable said.
  • (14) You see Nadal play a tennis match,” Godín explains, “and it drives you crazy because he always does the same thing and the guy is No1.
  • (15) In his book Fight the Power , Chuck rails against everything from Hollywood to the sports industry for portraying blacks as 'watermelon stealin', chicken eatin', knee knockin', eye poppin' lazy, crazy, dancin', submissive, Toms.
  • (16) After a stroke (left hemisphere), which mainly produced serious aphasia, I (the patient) felt crazy two or three times when someone said something I expected him to say.
  • (17) But at the same time we were supporting the industry and talking it up, which it deserves, some of our competitors were talking it down in their own products … that’s just crazy and a lack of leadership that frankly is irresponsible and it’s got to stop.” In a rare public appearance to mark the Australian newspaper’s 50th anniversary, Mitchell said the broadsheet newspaper was worth $50m in “cover price revenue” alone and it was too soon to walk away from print.
  • (18) "Like" is a preposition, said the accusers, and may take only a noun phrase object, as in "crazy like a fox" or "like a bat out of hell".
  • (19) And rare to see scripted too – normally women are only allowed to look dangerous if they’re playing a crazy person.
  • (20) She could actually be crazy,” and implying that she had been unfaithful for her husband.

Weird


Definition:

  • (n.) Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.
  • (n.) A spell or charm.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
  • (v. t.) To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (2) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
  • (3) They were ravaged by injuries at that point, although Park and Rafael in the centre was weird.
  • (4) It is still weird that "arts and crafts" is in the same category as dolls.
  • (5) In Niki Savva’s book The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government, Credlin has even been compared to Wallis Simpson, a deeply weird analogy.
  • (6) "Weirdly, we sold it to lots of European countries where there's not only the issue about knowing who Steve and Rob are, but I assume all the impressions are slightly lost on them.
  • (7) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
  • (8) As Alice Ross of the FT points out: Alice Ross (@aliceemross) Weird that Hollande is talking about an exchange rate that matches "true state" of ezone economy.
  • (9) I don't have any weirdness about it, or any of them."
  • (10) Weirdly, the muffled Doppler effects of several thousand passing SUVs was quite soothing.
  • (11) "Brr, that was weird, but we were cheeky little kids.
  • (12) As the weirdly brilliant TV show Fashion Police – hosted by the late, great Joan Rivers, who, along with various randoms, passed judgment on clothes worn by celebrities that week – demonstrated, people have different takes on clothes.
  • (13) "If viewers think something is false or weird, that's when they reject it," says Gary Knight, commercial content director at ITV.
  • (14) Are the 'Set Piece' binders to stay like we are playing a weird version of American Football?'
  • (15) Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Marché du Film, the world's biggest movie market.
  • (16) They occupy that weird middle ground between anonymity and celebrity; they're from well-regarded restaurants, but they're not at the level where, say, James Martin can be obnoxious at them on Saturday Kitchen.
  • (17) They sat me in a chair and just shaved most of my hair off in weird concentric rings so I looked like a tonsured 14th-century monk who had had brain surgery.
  • (18) I know some people will think it's weird to be so organised but I did it last year for the first time, and I found it very relaxing to know I had everything wrapped up by the end of November.
  • (19) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
  • (20) Away from the violence and the weirdness, Korea supports a healthy contingent of award-winning auteurs, like Hong Sang-soo , Im Sang-soo or Lee Chang-dong.