Adjective: crackpot
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more crackpot |
| Superlative | most crackpot |
Sample Sentences
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a crackpot idea
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While all this was happening Mr. Dies on February 1, 1943, in a long speech on the floor of the House attacked thirty-nine named Government employees as 'irresponsible, unrepresentative, crackpot, radical bureaucrats' and affiliates of 'communist front organizations.' [1946, Hugo Black, United States v. Lovett/Opinion of the Court:]
Adjectives inflected like crackpot
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Mostly likely a back-etymology of pot, to form crack + pot. Originally, from crack + pate.
2. Compare typologically Russian чо́кнутый (čóknutyj) (< чо́каться (čókatʹsja), onomatopoeic), see crack for the further typology.