Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun screwballer

1 sense of screwballer

Sense 1
screwballer -- ((baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs)
       => pitcher, hurler, twirler -- ((baseball) the person who does the pitching; "our pitcher has a sore arm")

Antonyms of adj screwball

1 sense of screwball

Sense 1
crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded -- (foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working")

INDIRECT (VIA impractical) -> practical -- (concerned with actual use or practice; "he is a very practical person"; "the idea had no practical application"; "a practical knowledge of Japanese"; "woodworking is a practical art")

Similarity of adj screwball

1 sense of screwball

Sense 1
crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded -- (foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working")
       => impractical (vs. practical) -- (not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution")

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