What is another word for "madcap"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "madcap": acrobat, and, bedlamite, bel, bon, buffoon, candidate, cap, caricaturist, charlatan, clown, corps, crank, crazy, dandy, dipsomaniac, dreamer, energumen, enthusiast, epigrammatist, errant, esprit, fanatic, fool, for, gaillard, green, guy, gypsy, harlequin, highflier, humorist, hypochondriac, idiot, jack, jester, joker, kleptomaniac, knight, life.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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