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Another word for madcap

madcap Synonyms

madcap

modif.

frivolous, foolish, wild, impulsive, impetuous, daring, adventurous; see also rash, stupid 1.

madcap Synonyms

madcap

n.

daredevil, hothead, prankster, adventuress; see adventurer 1.

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adjective

Characterized by unthinking boldness and haste:

brash, foolhardy, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hotheaded, ill-considered, impetuous, improvident, impulsive, incautious, precipitant, precipitate, rash¹, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, unconsidered. See careful

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"Well, do you recognize your little madcap playmate?" asked the countess.
In 1590 he married Anne of Denmark: in 1592 his character suffered through the murder, by Huntly, of " the bonny earl o' Murray," suspected of favouring the madcap Francis Stewart, earl of Bothwell (nephew of Queen Mary's Bothwell), a man who made it his business to kidnap the king, and who presently, by the help of Gowrie's widow, seized him in Holyrood.

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