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madcap
adj. crazy, reckless, impulsive
 
n. crazy and impulsive person, wild and reckless person

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Madcap
Madcap is an adjective. It is most often used to describe human personality traits; impulsiveness, hastiness, recklessness and capriciousness are all applicable. An individual described as a Madcap may appear quite indifferent in regard to dangerous situations; a person with a devil-may-care attitude.

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madcap
Noun
1. a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
(synonym) daredevil, hothead, swashbuckler, lunatic, harum-scarum
(hypernym) adventurer, venturer
(hyponym) tearaway
Adjective
1. characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic)
(synonym) hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous, tearaway(a), brainish
(similar) incautious
(classification) archaism, archaicism


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Madcap
(n.)
A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person.
  
 
(a.)
Wild; reckless.
  
 
(a.)
Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.
  

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madcap
Synonyms and related words:
Mafioso, Young Turk, adventurer, adventuress, adventurous, ardent, audacious, banana, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bold, bomber, brash, brazenface, brute, burlesquer, caricaturist, clown, comedian, comic, cutup, daredevil, daring, death-defying, demon, devil, dragon, epigrammatist, fanatic, fiend, fiery, fire-eater, fire-eating, firebrand, flaming, foolhardy, forward, funnyman, fury, gag writer, gagman, gagster, goon, gorilla, gunsel, hard-core, hardnose, harebrained, harum-scarum, hasty, heated, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hot, hothead, hotheaded, hotspur, humorist, incendiary, inflamed, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, killer, lampooner, mad dog, madbrain, madbrained, monster, mugger, parodist, passionate, prankster, presumptuous, punner, punster, quipster, rantipole, rapist, red-hot, reparteeist, revolutionary, satirist, savage, scorching, she-wolf, spitfire, termagant, terror, terrorist, thoughtless, tiger, tigress, totally committed, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, violent, virago, vixen, wag, wagwit, white-hot, wild, wild beast, wild man, wild-ass, wisecracker, wit, witch, witling, wolf, zany, zealous
  

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