Madcap

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  • adjective. Behaving or acting impulsively or rashly; wild.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A person who acts madly or wildly; a flighty or harebrained person; one who indulges in frolics.
  • Pertaining to or resembling a madcap; wild; harum-scarum.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person.
  • adjective. Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.
  • adjective. Wild; reckless.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. impulsive, hasty or reckless; capricious.
  • noun. An impulsive, hasty, capricious person.
  • noun. An insane person, a lunatic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
  • noun. a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
  • Word Usage
    "Aug. 3 Bloomberg -- Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said China's central bank will monitor U.S. efforts to tackle its debt as the official Chinese news agency criticized what it called the "madcap" brinksmanship of American lawmakers."
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