crackpot
noun
adjective
Origin of crackpot
Related Words for crackpot
kook, screwball, oddball, lunatic, maniac, nut, flake, crank, wacko, insaneExamples from the Web for crackpot
Contemporary Examples of crackpot
Indeed, Wolf's journey to the crackpot fringe was completed a long time ago.
In small steps, the crackpot architectural ideas of the past are becoming built parts of our cities.
But according to the Serious Men and Women of Washington, the FRC is not a crackpot outfit.
That has become the accepted theory, and anyone talking seriously about refrigerator mothers today would be considered a crackpot.
Critiques were drawn of the various fashionable conservative notions, which made them seem gimmicky at best, crackpot at worst.
Historical Examples of crackpot
So that crackpot, Graham, had finally come up with something definite.
Final WeaponEverett B. Cole
They dismissed him as a crackpot, too, if they heard about him at all.
With No Strings AttachedGordon Randall Garrett (AKA David Gordon)
Therefore, it wouldn't have happened—outside the crackpot fringe.
The Great Gray PlagueRaymond F. Jones
These had to be investigated—every lousy, crackpot one of them.
The Great Gray PlagueRaymond F. Jones
Projective telepathy had only been a crackpot's idea back then.
The Penal ClusterIvar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)