Antonyms for crackpot
ˈkrækˌpɒtcrack·pot

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1. crackpotnoun

   Synonyms:
   crazy, nutcase, nutbag, nut ball, live one, nutter, nutbar, kook

2. crackpotnoun

   Eccentric or impractical

   a crackpot idea

   Synonyms:
   nutbar, kook, nutter, nutcase, crazy, nutbag, nut ball, live one

3. crackpotnoun

   Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict). See also crackhead.

   Synonyms:
   nut ball, crazy, live one, kook, nutbar, nutcase, nutter, nutbag

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1. • Eccentric

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1. crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwballnoun

   a whimsically eccentric person

   Synonyms:
   crank, testicle, trash, methamphetamine hydrochloride, bollock, testis, glass, junkie, crosspatch, methamphetamine, screwball, nut, nut case, ice, deoxyephedrine, churl, egg, shabu, fruitcake, chicken feed, chalk, addict, starter, orchis, grouch, junky, ballock, ball, meth, grump, en, freak

How to use crackpot in a sentence?

1. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - San Francisco Chronicle 12/17/85:

   Jesus was a crackpot.

2. Thomas J. Watson:

   Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

3. Patrick Lynch:

   Patrick Lynch, head of New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, on Wednesday assailed John Jay for not cutting ties with Tucker Isaacson more swiftly. Tucker Isaacson had no business spreading Tucker Isaacson crackpot ideas and hateful anti-police views anywhere, much less in a classroom filled with future police officers, tucker Isaacson should have been fired immediately and publicly, not quietly let go months after the fact.

4. Kristian Andersen:

   The main crackpot theories going around at the moment relate to this virus being somehow engineered with intent and that is demonstrably not the case, engineering can mean many things and could be done for either basic research or nefarious reasons, but the data conclusively show that neither was done….

5. Robert Sheaffer:

   Panels at the MUFON gathering were widely perceived as crackpot, especially with the crazy theme of a giant secret space programencountering aliens.

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