Antonyms for madcap
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : mad-kap |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmædˌkæp |
Definition of madcap
Origin :- 1580s, noun and adjective, from mad (adj.) + cap, used here figuratively for "head." Related: Madcappery.
- adj crazy, impulsive
- Come down to breakfast, madcap, and come down lightly, or you'll wake your mother.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- For once the madcap girl got the better of the practised courtier.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry » by Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
- There was certainly no plan too madcap for Peachy to undertake.
- Extract from : « The Jolliest School of All » by Angela Brazil
- We should have thought at once the prank that madcap would be at!
- Extract from : « Dorothy's Travels » by Evelyn Raymond
- She wants instead a fortune‑teller, a madcap like Ydo Carrothers.
- Extract from : « The Silver Butterfly » by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
- "It is to that madcap resolution I object," said the captain emphatically.
- Extract from : « The Missouri Outlaws » by Gustave Aimard
- Not a word all the while of her whom madame had sworn should pay for her madcap freak of to-day.
- Extract from : « Little Nobody » by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
- It is merely one of their madcap tricks, but extremely annoying.
- Extract from : « Modern Flirtations » by Catherine Sinclair
- Almost she blushed to recall her madcap feats of only a year ago.
- Extract from : « Joan of the Sword Hand » by S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
- I am not likely to forget my folly in venturing out with a madcap like you!
- Extract from : « Autobiography of a YOGI » by Paramhansa Yogananda
Synonyms for madcap
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