- madcap
- adjective Date: 1588 marked by capriciousness, recklessness, or foolishness • madcap noun
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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… … Wikipedia
Madcap — Mad cap , a. 1. Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements. The merry madcap lord. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Wild; reckless. Madcap follies Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Madcap — ist ein sowjetisches AWACS Flugzeug, siehe Antonow An 71 die Abkürzung für Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol, siehe MADCAP Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demselben Wort bezeichneter… … Deutsch Wikipedia
madcap — [mad′kap΄] n. [ MAD + CAP1, fig. for head] a reckless, impulsive, or uninhibited person, orig. esp. a girl adj. reckless, uninhibited, or zany [madcap pranks] … English World dictionary
Madcap — Mad cap , n. A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person. Shak. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
madcap — index hot blooded, outrageous, precipitate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
madcap — 1580s, noun and adjective, from MAD (Cf. mad) (adj.) + CAP (Cf. cap), used here figuratively for “head.” Related: Madcappery … Etymology dictionary
madcap — [adj] crazy, impulsive brash, foolhardy, foolish, frivolous, harebrained*, heedless, hotheaded, ill advised, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, lively, rash, reckless, stupid, thoughtless, wild; concept 548 Ant. reasonable, sane … New thesaurus
madcap — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ impulsive or reckless … English terms dictionary
madcap — mad|cap [ˈmædkæp] adj [only before noun] old fashioned 1.) a madcap idea seems crazy and unlikely to succeed ▪ a madcap scheme 2.) a madcap person behaves in a crazy and often funny way ▪ He plays a madcap game show host … Dictionary of contemporary English
madcap — [[t]mæ̱dkæp[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n A madcap plan or scheme is very foolish and not likely to succeed. [INFORMAL] The politicians simply flitted from one madcap scheme to another... His fast paced novels are full of bizarre situations and… … English dictionary
