madcap

[ mad-kap ]

/ ˈmædˌkæp /

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adjective

wildly or heedlessly impulsive; reckless; rash: a madcap scheme.

noun

a madcap person.

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Origin of madcap

First recorded in 1580–90; mad + cap¹

Words nearby madcap

Madang, Madariaga, madarosis, mad as a hatter, mad as a hornet, madcap, mad cow disease, MADD, madden, maddening, madder

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How to use madcap in a sentence

“Dial A for Aunties” is, hands down, this year’s most madcap, swoony and delightful read.
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And it was as madcap, sharp, and romantic as the series was when it left off in May.
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But Poehler is, and has been throughout the run of her show, just as good: just as silly, just as madcap, just as witty.
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This was a madcap game, the ball hurtling from end to end, chased by tired legs of every hue.
Stars and Stripes 2, Black Stars 1: Team USA Takes a Win From Ghana|Tunku Varadarajan|June 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

But for all its madcap zaniness, Woke Up Lonely easily refutes the idea that the novel is a staid, obsolete form of writing.
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But the extent of the madcap goofiness in the helicopter ride is too much for some 007 diehards.
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We should have thought at once the prank that madcap would be at!
Dorothy's Travels|Evelyn Raymond
Jean was a bunch of nervous impulses, and no one ever knew where the madcap would bounce up next.
Three Little Women|Gabrielle E. Jackson
Captain Jack was open and generous, though a little given to rash enterprise and madcap adventure.
Richard Carvel, Complete|Winston Churchill
He shall go to Paris instead of those madcap youngsters with their parties.
Dry Fish and Wet|Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
The fiend receive George of Douglas and thee too, thou born madcap and sworn marplot!
The Abbot|Sir Walter Scott

British Dictionary definitions for madcap

madcap

/ (ˈmædˌkæp) /

adjective

impulsive, reckless, or lively

noun

an impulsive, reckless, or lively person

Word Origin for madcap

C16: from mad + cap (in the figurative sense: head)

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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