madcap

madcap is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.
2. adjective. Wild; reckless.
3. noun. A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person.
4. noun. a reckless impetuous irresponsible person

   Synonyms: daredevil, hothead, lunatic, swashbuckler

5. adjective. characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; (`brainish' is archaic)

   "a hotheaded decision"

   "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"

   Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, tearaway

Synonyms

daredevil, hothead, lunatic, swashbuckler, brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, tearaway

Common word forms

madcaps, madcaply

Words from these letters

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