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Crackpot   Listen
noun
crackpot  n.  A whimsically eccentric person.
Synonyms: crank, nut, nutcase, screwball.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Crackpot" Quotes from Famous Books



... it will stay. I simply won't destroy it, but I can think of nobody to whom I'd be willing to show it—certainly nobody at the college, my History Department colleagues least of all. Merely to tell the story would brand me irredeemably as a crackpot, but crackpots are tolerated, even on college faculties. It's only when they begin producing physical evidence that they get ...
— Crossroads of Destiny • Henry Beam Piper

... was always the trouble with those crackpot blokes' explanations of them. If they were aliens from space, ...
— I'm a Stranger Here Myself • Dallas McCord Reynolds



Words linked to "Crackpot" :   oddball, screwball, nut, crank, eccentric person, nut case, geek, fruitcake



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