Definitions for crackpot

crackpot crack·pot

Spelling: [krak-pot]
IPA: /ˈkrækˌpɒt/

Crackpot is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in crackpot (acckoprt).

Definitions for crackpot

noun

  1. a person who is eccentric, unrealistic, or fanatical.

adjective

  1. eccentric; impractical; fanatical:

Origin of crackpot

First recorded in 1860-65; from the phrase cracked pot

Examples for crackpot

Critiques were drawn of the various fashionable conservative notions, which made them seem gimmicky at best, crackpot at worst.

These had to be investigated—every lousy, crackpot one of them.

They dismissed him as a crackpot, too, if they heard about him at all.

Projective telepathy had only been a crackpot's idea back then.

Therefore, it wouldn't have happened—outside the crackpot fringe.

So that crackpot, Graham, had finally come up with something definite.

That has become the accepted theory, and anyone talking seriously about refrigerator mothers today would be considered a crackpot.

But according to the Serious Men and Women of Washington, the FRC is not a crackpot outfit.

In small steps, the crackpot architectural ideas of the past are becoming built parts of our cities.

Indeed, Wolf's journey to the crackpot fringe was completed a long time ago.

Word Value for crackpot
Scrable

18

Words with friends

21

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