Madcap meaning

măd'kăp'
Behaving or acting impulsively or rashly; wild.
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A reckless, impulsive, or uninhibited person, orig. esp. a girl.
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Reckless, uninhibited, or zany.

Madcap pranks.

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The film featured a madcap car chase that went right through a crowded café.

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An impulsive, hasty, capricious person.
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Origin of madcap

1580s, mad +"Ž cap (“head"), literally “crazy head". Original literal sense “lunatic, crazy person", now used figuratively.

Sentence Examples

  • "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.

  • madcap antics both on and off the stage.

  • madcap slapstick comedy looks pretty funny from the trailer.

  • madcap mix of late night stuff.

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