All crank synonyms
crank
C c noun crank
- zealot — a person who shows zeal.
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- lever — tool for lifting
- handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- arm — Your arms are the two long parts of your body that are attached to your shoulders and that have your hands at the end.
- eccentric — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- character — The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places.
- fanatic — a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.
- monomaniac — (no longer in technical use) a psychosis characterized by thoughts confined to one idea or group of ideas.
- grouch — to be sulky or morose; show discontent; complain, especially in an irritable way.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- original — belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
- maverick — Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.