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screwball |
Grep of noun screwball screwball screwballer Overview of noun screwball The noun screwball has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, nutcase, fruitcake, screwball -- (a whimsically eccentric person) 2. screwball -- (a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown) Overview of adj screwball The adj screwball has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded, meshuga, meshugge -- ((informal) foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working") Antonyms of adj screwball 1 sense of screwball Sense 1 crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded, meshuga, meshugge INDIRECT (VIA impractical) -> practical Similarity of adj screwball 1 sense of screwball Sense 1 crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded, meshuga, meshugge => impractical (vs. practical) Attributes of adj screwball Familiarity of adj screwball screwball used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count = 1) Grep of adj screwball screwball Overview of noun screwball The noun screwball has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, nutcase, fruitcake, screwball -- (a whimsically eccentric person) 2. screwball -- (a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown) Overview of adj screwball The adj screwball has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded, meshuga, meshugge -- ((informal) foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working")
screwball definition