Crazy
Crazy noun - A person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government.
Usage example: beleaguered government officials tried to dismiss the protesters as a bunch of leftist crazies
Revolutionary and crazy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Revolutionary" instead the word "Crazy" as an adjective or a noun.
Revolutionary
Revolutionary noun - A person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government.
Usage example: after the collapse of the Russian monarchy, the moderate socialists briefly governed until being overthrown by the Bolshevik revolutionaries
Crazy and revolutionary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crazy" instead the word "Revolutionary" as an adjective or a noun.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- It's all an act; he's merely pretending to have gone crazy so that he can work on his revolutionary new invention in peace.
Source: Series / Ellery Queen -
Ax-Crazy: In the French Revolution episode, Giles and Sue briefly play radical revolutionaries during the Reign of Terror (this involves eating a revolutionary picnic while watching executions).
Source: Series / The Supersizers Eat -
Shaming the Mob: Pilate lambasts the mob screaming for Jesus to be crucified, since he sees Jesus as a harmless crazy man being used as a scapegoat by the mob for the revolutionary rumblings his presence set off.
Source: Music / Jesus Christ Superstar
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