A few days ago
Cassandra S.

Can you make this sentence more formal?

I wrote a question saying:

What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done?

And the word crazy was vulgar apparently.

What else can I write to make it formal

and not vulgar?

Top 10 Answers
A few days ago
Bob

Favorite Answer

How bout:

Outrageous

Wild

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A few days ago
Anonymous
Why was it considered vulgar and by whom? I guess you could have used the word “zaniest”…but that may have been considered vulgar too. Maybe the word crazy comes up as vulgar in this forum so that people don’t refer to one another as crazy, because that may be considered name calling which could be considered abuse on this forum. It may be a computer thing? I’m curious too.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
‘Crazy’ is not vulgar. But it’s a bit ambiguous. What does it really mean? Maybe you could better express what you mean with other words.

What was the most senseless thing you’ve ever done? What was the wildest or most foolhardy thing you’ve ever done? What was the most impulsive or most irresponsible thing you’ve ever done? What was the thing you’ve done that you regretted the most later?

Each of those means ‘crazy’ but the meaning is more precise, less ambiguous.

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A few days ago
Nath B
what is the most unusual thing you have ever done?

i think this might sound better

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A few days ago
?
“unsual” is hardly crazy.

“eccentric” is close. try that.

thanks for excusing the lower-case sentences. crazy.

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A few days ago
Rainman
a synonym would be ……most unorthodox….

To be extremely formal, how about

What is the most unorthodox behavior you have exhibited?

Using ‘ever’ would be redundant to ‘most’. It is also redundant to the ‘est’ suffix.

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A few days ago
?
What is the most ridiculous thing you have ever spontaniously done?
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A few days ago
Anonymous
Name the strangest thing you have done?
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A few days ago
?
instead of crazy, you can use:

irrational

unorthodox

unreasonable

ununderstandable

strange

odd

peculiar

singular (..it is old-fashioned)

curious

eccentric

funny

surprising

puzzling

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A few days ago
dorsinvil W
Please, I begin now my learnig in Messenger. I’m not crazy. I want that you understand me.
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