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crankish

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Synonyms & Antonyms of crankish

as in quirky, eccentric

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for crankish

eccentric,
flaky,
quirky

impetuous,
mercurial,
moody,
temperamental,
volatile

arbitrary,
erratic,
fickle,
inconstant,
irregular,
shaky,
willful
(or wilful)

capricious,
freakish,
impulsive,
whimsical

impractical,
quixotic,
quixotical,
romantic,
unrealistic,
utopian,
visionary

Antonyms & Near Antonyms for crankish

equable

down-to-earth,
earthy,
hard-boiled,
hardheaded,
levelheaded,
matter-of-fact,
practical,
pragmatic
(also pragmatical),
reasonable,
sensible,
tough-minded

commonsensical,
grounded,
logical,
no-nonsense,
rational,
sane,
sober,
sobersided,
sound

fast,
fixed,
hard-and-fast,
immutable,
inflexible,
invariable,
unalterable,
unbending,
unchangeable,
uncompromising,
unrelenting,
unyielding

changeless,
constant,
established,
set,
settled,
stable,
steadfast,
steady,
unchanging,
unvarying

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