Madcap

Madcap

Madcap is an adjective. It is most often used to describe human personality traits; impulsiveness, hastiness, recklessness and capriciousness are all applicable. An individual described as a Madcap may appear quite indifferent in regard to dangerous situations; a person with a devil may care attitude.

Madcap may also refer to:
* Dr. Drago's Madcap Chase, computer game
* Madcap (band), a punk band
* Madcap (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
* MadCap Software, a software company
* "The Madcap Laughs", the first solo album by British musician Syd Barrett
* Madcap (project), an annotated video project of Xerox PARC
* "Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol" (RFC 2730), a protocol to enable multicasting in DHCP


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  • 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

  • Madcap — ist ein sowjetisches AWACS Flugzeug, siehe Antonow An 71 die Abkürzung für Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol, siehe MADCAP Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demselben Wort bezeichneter… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • madcap — [mad′kap΄] n. [ MAD + CAP1, fig. for head] a reckless, impulsive, or uninhibited person, orig. esp. a girl adj. reckless, uninhibited, or zany [madcap pranks] …   English World dictionary

  • Madcap — Mad cap , n. A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • madcap — index hot blooded, outrageous, precipitate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • madcap — 1580s, noun and adjective, from MAD (Cf. mad) (adj.) + CAP (Cf. cap), used here figuratively for “head.” Related: Madcappery …   Etymology dictionary

  • madcap — [adj] crazy, impulsive brash, foolhardy, foolish, frivolous, harebrained*, heedless, hotheaded, ill advised, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, lively, rash, reckless, stupid, thoughtless, wild; concept 548 Ant. reasonable, sane …   New thesaurus

  • madcap — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ impulsive or reckless …   English terms dictionary

  • madcap — mad|cap [ˈmædkæp] adj [only before noun] old fashioned 1.) a madcap idea seems crazy and unlikely to succeed ▪ a madcap scheme 2.) a madcap person behaves in a crazy and often funny way ▪ He plays a madcap game show host …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • madcap — [[t]mæ̱dkæp[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n A madcap plan or scheme is very foolish and not likely to succeed. [INFORMAL] The politicians simply flitted from one madcap scheme to another... His fast paced novels are full of bizarre situations and… …   English dictionary

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