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plural of head case
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1
a person having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind
- brought in a counselor to work with the student they worried might be a head case
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Words Related to head cases
- madmen,
- madwomen
- manic-depressives,
- monomaniacs,
- mythomaniacs,
- neurotics,
- obsessive-compulsives,
- obsessives,
- paranoids,
- psychoneurotics,
- psychotics,
- schizoids,
- schizophrenes,
- schizophrenics,
- schizos,
- sociopaths
- characters,
- codgers,
- crackpots,
- cracks,
- cranks,
- eccentrics,
- fantastics,
- flakes,
- kooks,
- oddballs,
- oddities,
- originals,
- quizzes,
- screwballs,
- tykes
- (also tikes)
- [chiefly British],
- weirdos,
- zanies
2
a person of odd or whimsical habits
- an area of scientific research that's a good niche for social misfits and hard-core head cases
Synonyms for head cases
- characters,
- codgers,
- crackbrains,
- crackpots,
- cracks,
- cranks,
- eccentrics,
- flakes,
- fruitcakes,
- kooks,
- nutcases,
- nuts,
- nutters
- [British slang],
- oddballs,
- oddities,
- originals,
- quizzes,
- screwballs,
- weirdos,
- zanies
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