Crossword-Solution: MADCAP
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Madcap | a. | Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements. |
| Madcap | a. | Wild; reckless. |
| Madcap | n. | A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MADCAP (5)
What made the shadows dance that madcap jig? He clutched the candle, steered his way to bed, And in a trice was sleeping like the dead.
And if youth be wild desire for play and care is the mark of men, Beneath the skin that Time has tanned I'm a madcap youngster then.
Would that relentless spirit with which he had been born make him, too, a wanderer forever? And was it not the strangest of fates which had impelled him to join this madcap expedition of this other man I loved, George Rogers Clark? I went out, closed the door, and lighting another candle took from my portfolio a packet of letters.
OCTOBER CEASE to call him sad and sober, Merriest of months, October! Patron of the bursting bins, Reveler in wayside inns, I can nowhere find a trace Of the pensive in his face; There is mingled wit and folly, But the madcap lacks the grace Of a thoughtful melancholy.
This madcap quest of mine, was it not understood between us from the beginning to be a fantastic whim, a poetical wild-goose chase, conceived entirely as an excuse for being some time in each other's company? To be whimsical, therefore, in pursuit of a whim, fanciful in the chase of a fancy, is surely but to maintain the spirit of the game.
Quotes with MADCAP (3)
Sometimes I dreamthat everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness — and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing; and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.
Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 104 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).