Synonyms of crackpots

crackpots

noun

plural of crackpot

as in eccentrics

a person of odd or whimsical habits

everyone is tolerant of the town crackpot, a man who never hurt anyone

Synonyms & Similar Words

• eccentrics
• nuts
• kooks
• cranks
• weirdos
• characters
• screwballs
• oddballs
• mavericks
• originals
• nutcases
• nutters
• fruitcakes
• flakes
• bohemians
• zanies
• codgers
• freaks
• rarities
• pieces of work
• oddities
• cracks
• quizzes
• head cases
• odd ducks
• nonconformists
• crackbrains
• geezers
• coots
• curios
• quixotes
• fantasts
• fantasticoes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sheep
• followers
• conformists
• conformers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of crackpots

Get the angst out of the games, and the crackpots will move on to some other fashionable cause. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2026

Artists have always used music to question authority and expose the cracks (and the crackpots) in the American story. — Time, 6 May 2026

The crackpots are the mainstream. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025