Synonyms for crackpot
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Kook — an eccentric, crazy or foolish person
kook, lunatic, screwball, nut, nutter UK, looney, mad man, oddball, eccentric, dingbat US AU, freak, nut case, oddity, nut ball, live one informal, crack, fruit cake, nutbag, wacko, psycho, whack job, weirdo slang
2. Crack whore — someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict)
crack head, crack whore vulgar slang
Definitions
- n. 1
An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
Time will tell whether he is a crackpot or a genius for promoting that sort of idea.
- n. 2
Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).
Related words
- Word family
- crackpotology
Forms
- Plural
- crackpots → kooks, lunatics, screwballs, nuts…
Example sentences
- nut With difficulty, I crack a nut with my bare hands.
- lunatic Gunter was yelling at the cops like a lunatic to help him.
By length
- 3 letters
- nut1
- 4 letters
- kook1
- 5 letters
- crack1, freak1, wacko2
- 6 letters
- psycho2, weirdo2, looney2, nutter2, oddity3, nutbag
- 7 letters
- lunatic3, oddball2, dingbat
- 9 letters
- eccentric3, screwball2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (wacko2 = 2 syllables).