FRUITCAKE Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

fruitcake

noun

ˈfrüt-ˌkāk

Definition of fruitcake

as in eccentric

a person of odd or whimsical habits children in the neighborhood once regarded the reclusive scientist as a fruitcake

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Recent Examples of fruitcake Unlike grandma’s fruitcake, the Spurs’ Christmas Day victory still tastes sweet two weeks into January. — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2026 But fruitcake has been at historic events for centuries, including Princess Diana and King Charles’ wedding and a trip to the moon on Apollo 11. — Juliette Arcodia, NBC news, 24 Dec. 2025 And her neighborhood was organizing a holiday market when Cardin got the idea of fruitcake. — Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2025 Baked goods Baked goods like cakes, cookies, pies, fruitcake, brownies and other items are permitted through security checkpoint. — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fruitcake

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Noun

With its loose ends and digressions, Dream Me a Dream stays true to those idiosyncratic instincts while retaining enough of the welcoming glow of Dance of Love to make this an affecting farewell from an endearing eccentric.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 22 June 2026
The eccentric cuz is quick to try and help Bobby solve problems, which often gets him into trouble, but ultimately pushes him out of his shell.

— Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 20 June 2026

Definition of eccentric

Noun

Wicked Wonderland follows 2024’s The Rise of Red, where Cantrall’s character and Cinderella’s daughter Chloe (Malia Baker) team up to go back in time and reverse the event that resulted in the Queen of Hearts’ evil path.

— Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
What saves Hyperdrive is the dry humour and the slightly insane set and character design.

— William Worrall, Space.com, 15 July 2026

Definition of character

Noun

Protein powder, Greek yogurt, berries, spinach and nut butter.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 15, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
The robot’s success rate at a self-tapping nut loading station has reached 98 percent, reducing the gap with human workers’ qualification rate to just one percentage point.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026

Definition of nut

Noun

Artists have always used music to question authority and expose the cracks (and the crackpots) in the American story.

— Time, Time, 6 May 2026
In one corner, the heartless girlboss; in the other, the crackpot conspiracy theorist (who just happens to be more sympathetic and charismatic than such types usually are).

— Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026

Definition of crackpot

Noun

People who see ghosts tend to see the same ghost wafting down the same staircase, but none of the characters populating Leo’s wacko hallucinations have returned for a repeat perfor-mance.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
This wacko crew was one of the greatest things in the history of television.

— Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025

Definition of wacko

Noun

Whit’s Frozen Custard is known for its flavor of the day calendar, with rich custards running the decadent range from fluffer nutter cookie, carrot cake, and mint cookies ‘n cream to Biscoff cookie butter and banana nut bread.

— Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
Lloyd Hansen is his exit strategy, and this nutter will stop at nothing to snuff Six and steal the drive.

— Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 July 2022

Definition of nutter

Noun

Video testimony provided other repudiations of Eastman’s nutcase legal theory.

— Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 June 2022
Ma Seok-do (Ma) is still with the Geumcheon Police Major Crimes Unit, arriving to help his fellow officers deal with a knife-wielding nutcase who’s taken hostages at a corner store.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 June 2022

Definition of nutcase

Noun

Malley is a normal, athletic outfielder, not some sort of weirdo contortionist reliever.

— Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 13 July 2026
By the early 1990s, Eugene had earned itself a reputation as a beacon of progressive-minded irreverence, drawing a pungent mix of weirdos, iconoclasts, and freethinkers.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

Definition of weirdo

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