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crackpotty

crackpotty adjective: resembling or characteristic of a crackpot.

Adjective

crackpotty (comparative crackpottier, superlative crackpottiest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a crackpot.
    • That is about the crack[-]pottiest scheme of all.1939 January 11, M. C. Holman, “Letters to the Forum”, in Oakland Tribune, volume CXXX, number 14, Oakland, Calif., published 14 January 1939, page 18
    • You said just what I was meaning to write to you and say, except that you say “understatement is the only emphasis,” while I was going to seek emphasis by saying that of all the crackpot notions afloat the crack[-]pottiest is the combination of the three sillinesses of imagining that we can keep...1946 March 20, Steven T. Byington, “No Understatement”, in The Boston Daily Globe, volume CXLIX, number 79, Boston, Mass., page fourteen

Forms of crackpotty

comparativecrackpottier
superlativecrackpottiest
alternative formcrack-potty

Origin of crackpotty

From crackpot + -y.

Questions about crackpotty

What does crackpotty mean?
Crackpotty means resembling or characteristic of a crackpot.
What part of speech is crackpotty?
Crackpotty is an adjective.

Words near crackpotty in the dictionary

  1. crackpots
  2. crackpottedness
  3. crackpottery
  4. crackpottier
  5. crackpottiest
  6. crackpotty
  7. crackproof
  8. crackrope
  9. crackropes
  10. cracks
  11. cracks a book

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