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fruitcake

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Synonyms and Antonyms of fruitcake

1 a person having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind

he agreed to an evaluation so they could see he wasn't a fruitcake

Synonyms of fruitcake

bug, crackbrain, crazy, fool, head case, loon, loony, lunatic, maniac, nut, nutcase, nutter [British slang], psycho, psychopath, sickie, sicko, wacko (also whacko)

Words Related to fruitcake

madman, madwoman

abnormal, deviant

manic-depressive, monomaniac, mythomaniac, neurotic, obsessive, obsessive-compulsive, paranoid, psychoneurotic, psychotic, schizo, schizoid, schizophrene, schizophrenic, sociopath

character, codger, crack, crackpot, crank, eccentric, fantastic, flake, kook, oddball, oddity, original, quiz, screwball, tyke (also tike) [chiefly British], weirdo, zany

2 a person of odd or whimsical habits

children in the neighborhood once regarded the reclusive scientist as a fruitcake

Synonyms of fruitcake

character, codger, crack, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, eccentric, flake, head case, kook, nut, nutcase, nutter [British slang], oddball, oddity, original, quiz, screwball, weirdo, zany

Words Related to fruitcake

bohemian, maverick, nonconformist, quixote

fantast, fantastico

Phrases Synonymous with fruitcake

odd duck, piece of work

Near Antonyms of fruitcake

conformer, conformist, follower, sheep

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