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Synonyms for crackpot


Grammar : Noun
Spell : krak-pot
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkrækˌpɒt



Définition of crackpot

Origin :
  • "mentally unbalanced person," by 1900, probably from crack + pot (n.1) in a slang sense of "head." Cf. crack-brain "crazy fellow" (late 16c.). Earlier it was used in a slang sense "a small-time big-shot" (1883), and by medical doctors in reference to a "metallic chinking sometimes heard when percussion is made over a cavity which communicates with a bronchus."
  • noun eccentric
Example sentences :
  • So that crackpot, Graham, had finally come up with something definite.
  • Extract from : « Final Weapon » by Everett B. Cole
  • They dismissed him as a crackpot, too, if they heard about him at all.
  • Extract from : « With No Strings Attached » by Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA David Gordon)
  • Therefore, it wouldn't have happened—outside the crackpot fringe.
  • Extract from : « The Great Gray Plague » by Raymond F. Jones
  • These had to be investigated—every lousy, crackpot one of them.
  • Extract from : « The Great Gray Plague » by Raymond F. Jones
  • Projective telepathy had only been a crackpot's idea back then.
  • Extract from : « The Penal Cluster » by Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)
  • The Navy would not stretch regulations for a crackpot civilian.
  • Extract from : « Creatures of the Abyss » by Murray Leinster
  • Maybe the guy was a crackpot or phony, but it wouldn't hurt to hear his story.
  • Extract from : « The Chameleon Man » by William P. McGivern
  • The letter was dismissed as "crackpot," and no precautions were taken.
  • Extract from : « Fifty Per Cent Prophet » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • "This wasn't a crackpot idea," she said, eyeing him as if he were another log for the fire.
  • Extract from : « A World Apart » by Samuel Kimball Merwin
  • Dark eyes rigid, unfocused, behind them Jim's own image of a crackpot redhead who was Callista's friend.
  • Extract from : « The Trial of Callista Blake » by Edgar Pangborn

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