madcap

The word “madcap” has 2 syllables: mad-cap

It's pronounced as /ˈmæd.kæp/


What is synonym and antonym for madcap?

In the thesaurus, “madcap” has 64 synonyms and 40 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for madcap along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for madcap

  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • audacious
  • berserk
  • berserker
  • bold
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brave
  • careless
  • courageous
  • cowboy
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • dauntless
  • devil
  • doughty
  • fearless
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frivolous
  • gallant
  • greathearted
  • gutsy
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hotdog
  • hotheaded
  • ill-advised
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • inconsiderate
  • intrepid
  • lionhearted
  • lively
  • madman
  • manful
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • precipitate
  • rash
  • reckless
  • scatterbrained
  • showboat
  • stalwart
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • stupid
  • temerarious
  • thoughtless
  • undauntable
  • undaunted
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • wild

Antonyms for madcap

Meanings of madcap

  • noun
    1. An impulsive, hasty, capricious person.
    2. An insane person, a lunatic.
  • adjective
    1. Impulsive, hasty or reckless; capricious.

Example Sentences

  • The comedy troupe put on a hilarious performance filled with madcap antics and slapstick humor.
  • The adventurous duo embarked on a madcap road trip, exploring quirky roadside attractions.
  • The film director infused the romantic comedy with a touch of madcap charm, delighting the audience.
  • In the whimsical carnival, children laughed at the antics of the madcap clown.
  • The impromptu dance party in the park turned into a madcap celebration of joy and spontaneity.

On this page you'll find 104 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to madcap, such as: adventuresome, adventurous, alert, audacious, berserk, berserker, bold.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

campy

  • absurd
  • affected
  • agreeable
  • airish
  • amusing
  • antic
  • antimacho
  • apish
  • artificial
  • artsy
  • asinine
  • assumed
  • awkward
  • batty
  • bizarre
  • blithe
  • blithesome
  • boffo
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • camp
  • ceremonious
  • charming
  • cheerful
  • cheering
  • chichi
  • chucklesome
  • clownish
  • comedic
  • comic
  • comical
  • conceited
  • conscious
  • contrived
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeited
  • crazy
  • cut up
  • daffy
  • dandyish
  • delightful
  • derisive
  • derisory
  • dippy
  • diverting
  • dramaturgic
  • droll
  • dudish
  • dumb
  • eccentric
  • effeminate
  • effete
  • enchanting
  • engaging
  • enjoyable
  • entertaining
  • epicene
  • epigrammatic
  • exaggerated
  • facetious
  • faked
  • false
  • fanciful
  • fantastic
  • farcical
  • feigned
  • feminine
  • flaky
  • flip
  • flippant
  • fooling around
  • foolish
  • foppish
  • for grins
  • fraud
  • fraudulent
  • freaky
  • frolicsome
  • fun
  • funny
  • gagged up
  • gay
  • gelastic
  • girlie
  • girlish
  • girly
  • gladdening
  • gleeful
  • gone Hollywood
  • goofy
  • gratifying
  • gut-busting
  • ham
  • hammy
  • happy
  • har-har
  • hare-brained
  • highfalutin
  • hilarious
  • histrionic
  • histrionical
  • hollow
  • humoristic
  • humorous
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • idiotic
  • illogical
  • imitated
  • inane
  • incongruous
  • ingenious
  • insincere
  • intelligent
  • interesting
  • irrational
  • jesting
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • jokey
  • joking
  • joky
  • jolly
  • joshing
  • jovial
  • joyous
  • keen
  • killing
  • knockabout
  • kooky
  • la-di-da
  • laffer
  • laughable
  • laughing
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • loony
  • ludicrous
  • mad
  • madcap
  • mannered
  • melodramatic
  • meretricious
  • merry
  • mirthful
  • mischievous
  • mocking
  • nonsensical
  • nutty
  • odd
  • off the wall
  • old-maidish
  • operatic
  • original
  • ostentatious
  • outrageous
  • overdone
  • overnice
  • pedantic
  • penetrating
  • pert
  • phony
  • piercing
  • piquant
  • playacting
  • playful
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pompous
  • posed
  • precious
  • preposterous
  • pretended
  • pretentious
  • priceless
  • prissy
  • put on
  • quaint
  • quick-witted
  • quizzical
  • ribald
  • rich
  • ridiculous
  • riot
  • riotous
  • risible
  • roguish
  • sappy
  • schmaltzy
  • scintillating
  • scream
  • screaming
  • screwy
  • self-conscious
  • shallow
  • sham
  • showy
  • side-splitting
  • sidesplitting
  • silly
  • simulated
  • sissified
  • sissy
  • slapstick
  • slapsticky
  • smart
  • smart-aleck
  • smart-alecky
  • snickery
  • sparkling
  • spinsterish
  • sportive
  • spurious
  • staged
  • stagy
  • stiff
  • stilted
  • stuck-up
  • studied
  • stupid
  • superficial
  • teasing
  • theatric
  • theatrical
  • thespian
  • tomfool
  • too funny for words
  • tragic
  • twee
  • unmanly
  • unnatural
  • unreal
  • unreasonable
  • unusual
  • uproarious
  • vaudeville
  • wacky
  • waggish
  • whimsical
  • witty
  • womanish
  • womanlike
  • womanly
  • wry
  • zany

daredevil

  • adventurer
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • audacious
  • berserk
  • berserker
  • blithe
  • bold
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brave
  • carefree
  • careless
  • courageous
  • cowboy
  • daring
  • dauntless
  • devil
  • devil-may-care
  • doughty
  • fearless
  • feckless
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • freewheeling
  • gallant
  • greathearted
  • gutsy
  • happy-go-lucky
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • harum-scarum
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heedless
  • hell-for-leather
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hot dog
  • hotdog
  • hotheaded
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • inattentive
  • incautious
  • inconsiderate
  • intrepid
  • irresponsible
  • kamikaze
  • lionhearted
  • madcap
  • madman
  • manful
  • mindless
  • nonchalant
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • precipitate
  • rash
  • reckless
  • regardless
  • risk-taker
  • scatterbrained
  • show-off
  • showboat
  • slaphappy
  • stalwart
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • stuntman
  • stuntperson
  • stuntwoman
  • temerarious
  • thoughtless
  • unconcerned
  • undauntable
  • undaunted
  • unheeding
  • unmindful
  • unthinking
  • unworried
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • wild

daredevils

daring

  • absurd
  • accosting
  • adventuresome
  • adventuresomeness
  • adventurous
  • adventurousness
  • affronting
  • approaching
  • asinine
  • audacious
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • backbone
  • balmy
  • battling
  • bearding
  • bold
  • boldness
  • bottle
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brassiness
  • brassy
  • brave
  • braveness
  • bravery
  • braving
  • brazening
  • brazenness
  • breasting
  • challenging
  • cheek
  • cheeky
  • cockiness
  • cocky
  • cojones
  • combating
  • combatting
  • confronting
  • cornering
  • courage
  • courageous
  • courageousness
  • crazy
  • crusty
  • daredevil
  • daredevilry
  • daredeviltry
  • daringness
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • dauntlessness
  • defying
  • determination
  • doughtiness
  • dumb
  • effrontery
  • emboldened
  • encountering
  • endurance
  • enterprising
  • facing
  • fearless
  • fearlessness
  • fiber
  • fighting
  • fire-eating
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • fortitude
  • forward
  • free-swinging
  • fronting
  • gadarene
  • gall
  • gallant
  • gallantry
  • game
  • go for broke
  • greathearted
  • greatheartedness
  • grit
  • gritty
  • gumption
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • gutsy
  • gutty
  • half-witted
  • hardihood
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heart
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • heroism
  • hot shot
  • hotheaded
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impudence
  • impudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • insane
  • intestinal fortitude
  • intrepid
  • intrepidity
  • intrepidness
  • irrational
  • lionhearted
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • meeting
  • mettle
  • moronic
  • moxie
  • nerve
  • nerved
  • nervy
  • nutty
  • obtrusive
  • opposing
  • out on a limb
  • outbraving
  • outfacing
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • pecker
  • perseverance
  • pluck
  • pluckiness
  • plucky
  • precipitate
  • prowess
  • rash
  • reckless
  • repelling
  • resisting
  • resolution
  • salt
  • salty
  • scatterbrained
  • silly
  • smart
  • smart-alecky
  • spirited
  • spunk
  • spunky
  • stalwart
  • stamina
  • standing
  • standing up to
  • stomach
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • stoutness
  • stumping
  • stupid
  • swashbuckling
  • temerarious
  • temerity
  • temper
  • tenacity
  • thoughtless
  • unafraid
  • undaunted
  • unnecessary
  • unreasonable
  • valiance
  • valiant
  • valor
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturesomeness
  • venturous
  • virtue
  • wacky
  • whacky
  • wild
  • withstanding
  • witless

dashing

  • absurd
  • accelerating
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • afflicting
  • agitating
  • ailing
  • alert
  • animated
  • arrowing
  • asinine
  • audacious
  • balmy
  • barreling
  • barrelling
  • bathing
  • beating it
  • beelining
  • beetling
  • belting
  • bespattering
  • blasting
  • blazing
  • blowing
  • bold
  • bolting
  • bombing
  • bothering
  • bounding
  • bowling
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brave
  • breezing
  • bucking
  • bundling
  • burdening
  • bustling
  • buzzing
  • cannonballing
  • cantering
  • careening
  • careering
  • casting
  • catapulting
  • catching up
  • chasing
  • chic
  • chucking
  • concerning
  • courageous
  • coursing
  • crazy
  • dabbling
  • dapper
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • darting
  • daunting
  • dauntless
  • dazzling
  • debonair
  • dejecting
  • demoralizing
  • depressing
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • disquieting
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dousing
  • dowsing
  • drenching
  • driving
  • drowning
  • dumb
  • ejecting
  • elegant
  • emboldened
  • enterprising
  • exclusive
  • exercising
  • exuberant
  • fashionable
  • fast-forwarding
  • fearless
  • firing
  • flinging
  • flipping
  • flitting
  • flying
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • free-swinging
  • gadarene
  • gallant
  • galloping
  • gay
  • getting a move on
  • getting down
  • greathearted
  • gritty
  • gunning
  • gutsy
  • half-witted
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • haring
  • hastening
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heaving
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hieing
  • highballing
  • hooking
  • hotheaded
  • humping
  • hurling
  • hurrying
  • hurtling
  • hustling
  • hying
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • impelling
  • impetuous
  • impregnating
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • insane
  • intrepid
  • irrational
  • jaunty
  • jetting
  • jogging
  • jumping
  • keen
  • lapping
  • launching
  • leaping
  • letting fly
  • lionhearted
  • lively
  • lobbing
  • lofting
  • loping
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • making tracks
  • modish
  • moronic
  • motoring
  • nerved
  • nervy
  • nipping
  • nutty
  • oppressing
  • outpacing
  • outrunning
  • outstripping
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • overtaking
  • passing
  • pattering
  • pegging
  • pelting
  • perturbing
  • pitching
  • plashing
  • plucky
  • precipitate
  • precipitating
  • projecting
  • propelling
  • quickening
  • racing
  • ramming
  • rash
  • reckless
  • rifling
  • ripping
  • rocketing
  • rolling
  • rousing
  • running
  • rushing
  • rustling
  • saddening
  • saturating
  • scampering
  • scatterbrained
  • scooting
  • scudding
  • scuffling
  • scurrying
  • scuttling
  • shagging
  • shaking a leg
  • shooting
  • showy
  • silly
  • skipping
  • slinging
  • slopping
  • sloshing
  • slushing
  • smart
  • soaking
  • sopping
  • sousing
  • spattering
  • speeding
  • spirited
  • splashing
  • splattering
  • sporty
  • spraying
  • springing
  • sprinkling
  • sprinting
  • spritzing
  • spunky
  • squirting
  • stalwart
  • stampeding
  • steeping
  • stepping
  • stepping on it
  • stepping out
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • streaking
  • stupid
  • stylish
  • swank
  • swashbuckling
  • swashing
  • swish
  • tearing
  • thoughtless
  • throwing
  • thrusting
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • tossing
  • traveling
  • travelling
  • tripping
  • trotting
  • troubling
  • unafraid
  • undaunted
  • undoing
  • unhinging
  • unnecessary
  • unnerving
  • unreasonable
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • vivacious
  • wacky
  • washing
  • watering
  • weighing down
  • whacky
  • whirling
  • whisking
  • whizzing
  • wild
  • witless
  • worrying
  • zipping
  • zooming

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