head-cases
People considered crazy
Head-cases is the plural of head-case, an informal term for someone considered mentally unstable or eccentric—a person whose behavior seems erratic or difficult to deal with: The whole department is full of head-cases.
The term is dismissive but usually not clinical, suggesting exasperation more than diagnosis.
Eccentric individual
- kookyOddball in manner
- quirkyIdiosyncratically unusual
- weirdoPeculiar person, dismissively
- nutcaseEccentric or deranged person
crackpot · screwball · whacko · fruitcake · loony · crank · madcap · character
One who creates discord
- problem childPersistently difficult youth
- handfulAmount a palm holds
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
- drama queenHabitual emotional exaggerator
diva · prima donna · hothead · loose cannon · rebel · malcontent · agitator · rabble-rouser
oddball
Eccentric individual
nutcase · crackpot · screwball · whacko · fruitcake · loony · crank · madcap · character · original
troublemaker
One who creates discord
- problem childPersistently difficult youth
- handfulAmount a palm holds
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
drama queen · diva · prima donna · hothead · loose cannon · rebel · malcontent · agitator · rabble-rouser · firebrand
mental patient
Person in psychiatric care
- neuroticExcessively anxious or obsessive
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- crackupCollapse or hilarity
breakdown · psych ward · institutionalized · unhinged · deranged
head-casessteady Eddies
Consistently dependable individuals
rocks · cool heads · anchors
head-casesregular folks
Ordinary, unremarkable people
straight arrows · normies · squares · conformists · salt of the earth
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