Synonyms of the word

screwball

• n. (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting…
• n. (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
• adj. (originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.

crackpot

• n. (informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person. A kook.
• n. (informal) Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict). See also crackhead.
• adj. (informal) Eccentric or impractical.

crank

• adj. (slang) strange, weird, odd.
• adj. sick; unwell; infirm.
• adj. (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
• adj. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
• n. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft…
• n. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
• n. (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
• n. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
• n. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
• n. (informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave…
• n. (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
• n. (US, slang) methamphetamine.
• n. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
• n. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
• n. (slang) penis.
• v. (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To turn a crank.
• v. (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
• v. (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
• v. (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

crazy

• adj. Insane; lunatic; demented.
• adj. Out of control.
• adj. Overly excited or enthusiastic.
• adj. In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
• adj. (informal) Unexpected; surprising.
• adj. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
• adv. (slang) Very, extremely.
• n. An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Eccentric behaviour; lunacy.

delivery

• n. The act of conveying something.
• n. The item which has been conveyed.
• n. The act of giving birth.
• n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
• n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
• n. The manner of speaking.
• n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
• n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
• n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
• n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

eccentric

• adj. Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
• adj. Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
• adj. Having a different center; not concentric.
• adj. (of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently.
• adj. (physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (e.g., such…
• adj. Having different goals or motives.
• n. One who does not behave like others.
• n. A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
• n. (slang) A kook.

flake

• n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
• n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
• n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
• n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
• n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
• v. To break or chip off in a flake.
• v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
• v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
• v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
• n. (Britain) Dogfish.
• n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
• n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
• n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
• n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

fruitcake

• n. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
• n. (chiefly US and Canada, colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
• n. (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A male homosexual.

geek

• n. (dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
• n. (colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and usually asocial.…
• n. (colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
• n. (colloquial) The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream;…
• n. (colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
• v. (colloquial) To behave geekishly or in a socially awkward manner, especially when under the influence…
• n. (Australia, colloquial) A look.
• v. (Cornwall) To look; to peep; to stare about intently.

half-baked

• adj. Used other than as an idiom: see Partially cooked by heating in an oven.
• adj. (idiomatic, informal, frequently derisive) Incomplete; (of an idea or scheme) not fully planned or carefully…

impractical

• adj. Not practical; impracticable.

nut

• n. A hard-shelled seed.
• n. A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined…
• n. (slang) A crazy person.
• n. (slang) The head.
• n. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
• n. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
• n. (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of…
• n. (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead…
• n. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
• n. (dated, Britain, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
• n. (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
• n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
• n. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
• n. (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface…
• n. (poker, only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, especially: "nut flush" and…
• n. The tumbler of a gunlock.
• n. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
• v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
• v. (slang) To ejaculate.
• interj. (Scotland, colloquial) No.

nutcase

• n. (humorous) An eccentric or odd person.
• n. (pejorative, slang) Someone who is insane.

oddball

• n. An eccentric or unusual person.
• n. (neuroscience) A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger…
• adj. Exotic, not mainstream.

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

softheaded

• adj. (informal) Lacking sound judgment or resolve; stupid; weak-minded.