CRACKERS Synonyms: 124 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈkra-kərz

Definition of crackers

informal + disparaging

as in psychotic

unable to think in a clear or sensible way He spends too much time working on his inventions, and I think he's gone a little crackers.

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crackers

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a person who illegally gains access to a computer system and sometimes tampers with its information a cracker who had broken into the intelligence agency's database attempted to leak the classified information

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as in cocks

chiefly dialect someone who boasts you're a fool if you believe half of what that cracker says

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Adjective

Psychiatric disorders are generally divided into mood disorders and psychotic disorders, Osborne said; postpartum psychosis is a mood disorder, in which mood symptoms accompany psychotic symptoms.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
But to make some generalization that all career women are psychotic because Glenn Close happened to be psychotic at the end of that movie is just silly.

— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of psychotic

Noun

In this sort of network attack, hackers create a fake public network access point that usually has a stronger signal than the legitimate one.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Instead, that process was based on a predictable pattern, allowing hackers who possessed a sample seed phrase to use trial-and-error to guess others—and clean out Coldcard owners in the process.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of hackers

Noun

Piedmont Park Arts Festival This long-standing arts festival brings out more than 250 sculptors, painters, leatherworkers, glass blowers, jewelers and more.

— Elizabeth Green, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
Nearly a century later in 1978, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, a second Civil Service Reform Act was passed providing further protections, including for whistle blowers.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

Definition of blowers

Adjective

There was also a stream of characters who visited the island, from a pop group to a movie producer, a mad scientist, and Russian cosmonauts.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026
There are a few pages spent on Deflategate (that made Brady mad), only a few paragraphs devoted to Aaron Hernandez, none on Spygate.

— Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of mad

Noun

The entertainment industry is no stranger to individuals who espouse contested stories about screen hits, but the producers of Legacy of Lies have grown tired of his brags.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Like any good barbecue IRL, the chat is mostly meat pics, cooking tips (with a dose of half-brags) and occasional smack talk.

— Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025

Definition of brags

Adjective

And their friendship, a folie à deux spiral of insane ideas powered by ungodly quantities of pot, becomes akin to a superpower.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
These mega facilities are popping up everywhere which means lots of people are spending insane money instead of pulling out the hose and bucket.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026

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