madcap

Plural: madcaps

Noun

• An impetuous and reckless person; a wild or zany individual.
• a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
• A person who acts in a capricious, impulsive, or reckless manner.
• A very foolish or irresponsible person; a fool, an idiot.
• An insane person; a lunatic.

Adjective Satellite

• characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; ; ; ; ; (`brainish' is archaic)
  • "madcap escapades"

Adj

• Capricious, impulsive, or reckless; also, bizarre, crazy, zany; or foolish, idiotic.

Examples

• a madcap activity    a madcap idea    a madcap plan
• My opponent’s MADCAP strategy often led to huge risks in Scrabble, sometimes paying off big.
• The film featured a madcap car chase that went right through a crowded café.

Synonyms

brainish, daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, lunatic, swashbuckler, tearaway, Charlie, Homer Simpson, alcatote, arsehole, asshat, asshole, basket case, basket weaver, bayard, berk, birdbrain, blither, bobchin, bonehead, bozo, brickhead, buffoon, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, clart, clown, crack, crackpot, crazy, crazyhead, der-brain, dill pickle, dim bulb, dingbat, dingleberry, dipshit, dipstick, dirtbrain, div, divvo, divvy, dolt, donk, doodle, doofus, dope, dork, dote, dotterel, dullard, dumb fuck, dumbass, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, eccentric, fathead, fenderhead, fiddle, fruit and nut case, fruit cake, fruit loop, fruitloop, fuckwit, fuzznut, geck, gig, gink, goober, gooseberry, gowk, gubbins, gump, ha'p'orth, head case, ignoramus, imbecile, jamoke, jerk, jerkoff, jolterhead, jolthead, juggins, jughead, knucklehead, kook, lamebrain, loony, loony tune, madcap, madhead, madman, mameluke (US (Italian-American), maroon, meathead, mental case, mong, moron, mug, muggins, mushhead, nimrod, nincompoop, nit, nitwit, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, numps, numpty, numskull, nupson, nut, nut ball, nutbar, nutburger, nutcase, nutjob, nutter, oaf, pillock, pinhead, plonker, prat, psycho, psychoceramic, retard, schizo, schmo, schmuck, screwball, shit for brains, shithead, shitwit, slang), snapperhead, softhead, sot, space cadet, space case, space pilot, stupid, sucker, thickhead, tonto, tool, tosser, tosspot, twat, twerp, twit, unconventional, wackadoo, wackadoodle, wacko, wally, wantwit, wazzock, weirdo, whackjob, whacko, wingnut, yampy

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