crackpot
/ˈkɹæk.pɒt/
crackpot noun: an eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
Noun
crackpot (plural crackpots)
- An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
- Time will tell whether he is a crackpot or a genius for promoting that sort of idea.
- The Police Commissioner sat studying Frank the Flower for several minutes. Then he called the policeman who had arrested Frank. “You will have to lock this man up,” he said. “But treat him gently. He is a harmless crackpot.”1964, Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War
- Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).
Adjective
crackpot (comparative more crackpot, superlative most crackpot)
- Eccentric or impractical.
- a crackpot idea
- While all this was happening Mr. Dies on February 1, 1943, in a long speech on the floor of the House attacked thirty-nine named Government employees as 'irresponsible, unrepresentative, crackpot, radical bureaucrats' and affiliates of 'communist front organizations.'1946, Hugo Black, United States v. Lovett/Opinion of the Court
- Synonyms:
- eccentric, impractical
Proper noun capitalized: Crackpot
Crackpot
- A small village in Grinton parish, Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SD9796)
crackpot meaning in Tamil and Urdu
crackpot in Tamil
- அறிவு மாறாட்ட முள்ளவர், கிறுக்கர், கோட்டிக்காரர், அறிவுமாறாட்டமுள்ளவர்
crackpot in Urdu
- باولا, خبطی, پاگل, سنکی
Examples of crackpot in a sentence
- But he was beginning to feel like a crackpot of Kaczynskian proportions.
- Their numbers included many of California’s crack-pottiest crackpots and spaciest metaphysical riff-raff.
- Those who persist are shown up as perverse, slightly bammy, crackpots – or occasionally as unpatriotic.
Synonyms of crackpot
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- coot
- eccentric
- freak
- glaik
- hard case
- oddball
- oddity
- odd bod
- odd duck
- odd fish
- queerdo
- strange bird
- strange fish
- strangeling
- wack
- wacko
- weirdie
- weirdling
- weirdo
- wild man
- wingnut
- basket case
- basket weaver
- crack
- crazyhead
- dingbat
- fruit and nut case
- fruit cake
- fruit loop
- fruitloop
Forms of crackpot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | crackpots |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more crackpot |
| superlative | most crackpot |
Origin of crackpot
Mostly likely a back-etymology of pot, to form crack + pot. Originally, from crack + pate. Compare typologically Russian чо́кнутый (čóknutyj) (< чо́каться (čókatʹsja), onomatopoeic), see crack for the further typology.
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Questions about crackpot
- What does crackpot mean?
- Crackpot means an eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
- What is crackpot in Tamil?
- Crackpot in Tamil is அறிவு மாறாட்ட முள்ளவர், கிறுக்கர், கோட்டிக்காரர். See Crackpot meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is crackpot?
- Crackpot can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce crackpot?
- Crackpot is pronounced /ˈkɹæk.pɒt/.
- What is the plural of crackpot?
- The plural of crackpot is crackpots.
Words near crackpot in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crackpot (page history and authors); Crackpot (page history and authors); crackpot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crackpot (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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