Madcap \Mad"cap`\, a.
1. Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or
dangerous amusements. "The merry madcap lord." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. Wild; reckless. "Madcap follies" --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Madcap \Mad"cap`\, n.
A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent
person. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
madcap
adj : characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or
deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such
impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous
display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades";
(`brainish' is archaic) [syn: hotheaded, impulsive,
impetuous, tearaway(a), brainish]
n : a reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn: daredevil,
hothead, swashbuckler, lunatic, harum-scarum]
WordNet (r) 2.0
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "madcap":
Mafioso, Young Turk, adventurer, adventuress, adventurous, ardent,
audacious, banana, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bold, bomber,
brash, brazenface, brute, burlesquer, caricaturist, clown,
comedian, comic, cutup, daredevil, daring, death-defying, demon,
devil, dragon, epigrammatist, fanatic, fiend, fiery, fire-eater,
fire-eating, firebrand, flaming, foolhardy, forward, funnyman,
fury, gag writer, gagman, gagster, goon, gorilla, gunsel,
hard-core, hardnose, harebrained, harum-scarum, hasty, heated,
hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood,
hoodlum, hot, hothead, hotheaded, hotspur, humorist, incendiary,
inflamed, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, killer,
lampooner, mad dog, madbrain, madbrained, monster, mugger,
parodist, passionate, prankster, presumptuous, punner, punster,
quipster, rantipole, rapist, red-hot, reparteeist, revolutionary,
satirist, savage, scorching, she-wolf, spitfire, termagant, terror,
terrorist, thoughtless, tiger, tigress, totally committed, tough,
tough guy, ugly customer, violent, virago, vixen, wag, wagwit,
white-hot, wild, wild beast, wild man, wild-ass, wisecracker, wit,
witch, witling, wolf, zany, zealous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
MADCAP
Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (RFC 2730,
Multicast)
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
MADCAP
Math and set problems, for the Maniac II and CDC 6600.
"MADCAP - A Scientific Compiler for a Displayed Formula
Texbook Language", M.B. Wells, CACM 4(1):31-36 (Jan 1961).
Sammet 1969, pp.271-281. Versions: Madcap 5 (1964), Madcap 6.
"The Unified Data Structure Capability in Madcap 6",
M.B. Wells et al, Intl J Comp Info Sci 1(3) (sep 1972).
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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