Usually means: Reckless, impulsive, and wildly fun.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word madcap:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. madcap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. madcap: Merriam-Webster
  3. madcap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. madcap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. madcap: Collins English Dictionary
  6. madcap: Vocabulary.com
  7. Madcap, madcap: Wordnik
  8. madcap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. madcap: Wiktionary
  10. madcap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. madcap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. madcap: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Madcap, madcap: Dictionary.com
  14. madcap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Madcap (comics), Madcap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Madcap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. madcap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. madcap: Rhymezone
  19. Madcap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. madcap: FreeDictionary.org
  21. madcap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Madcap: The Word Detective
  23. madcap: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. madcap: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. madcap: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MADCAP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. MADCAP: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Madcap: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. madcap: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Hasty, impulsive, or reckless; capricious.
noun:  An impulsive, hasty, capricious person.
noun:  (obsolete) An insane person, a lunatic.

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