Capricious \Ca*pri"cious\ (k[.a]*pr[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [Cf. F.
capricieux, It. capriccioso.]
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly;
freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." --Shak.
"Capricious humor." --Hugh Miller.
[1913 Webster]
A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.
--Hallam.
Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety;
fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain;
inconstant; arbitrary. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
capricious
adj 1: changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"
[syn: freakish]
2: determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by
necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal";
"authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the
victim of whimsical persecutions" [syn: impulsive, whimsical]
WordNet (r) 2.0
270 Moby Thesaurus words for "capricious":
adrift, afloat, agnostic, aimless, alternating, ambiguous,
ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, arbitrary, at loose ends,
brittle, broken, careening, careless, casual, catchy, chancy,
changeable, changeful, changing, choppy, corruptible, cranky,
crotchety, deciduous, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative,
deviatory, dicey, different, disarticulated, disconnected,
discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, dispersed,
disproportionate, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform,
dizzy, double-minded, doubting, dubious, dying, eccentric,
effervescent, ephemeral, equivocal, erose, erratic, evanescent,
fading, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose,
fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fitful, flaky, fleeting,
flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuating,
fly-by-night, flying, formless, fragile, frail, freakish,
frivolous, fugacious, fugitive, giddy, gratuitous, guttering,
halting, haphazard, harebrained, heedless, herky-jerky, hesitant,
hesitating, heteroclite, hit-or-miss, humorsome, iffy,
immethodical, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inadvertent,
incalculable, inchoate, incoherent, inconsiderate, inconsistent,
inconstant, indecisive, indemonstrable, indiscriminate, infirm,
infirm of purpose, insubstantial, intermittent, intermitting,
irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible, jagged, jerky,
kinky, lubricious, lurching, maggoty, mazy, meaningless, mercurial,
misshapen, momentary, moody, mortal, motiveless, motley,
mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mutable, nonconformist, nondurable,
nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic,
nonuniform, notional, of two minds, orderless, passing, patchy,
perishable, petulant, planless, pluralistic, polysemous,
promiscuous, quirky, ragged, rambling, random, reasonless,
restless, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, senseless,
shapeless, shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, skeptical,
snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless,
sporadic, spotty, staggering, straggling, straggly, systemless,
temperamental, temporal, temporary, thoughtless, ticklish,
touch-and-go, transient, transitive, transitory, unaccountable,
unarranged, uncalculating, uncertain, unclassified, unconfirmable,
uncontrolled, unconvinced, undecided, undependable, undetermined,
undirected, undisciplined, undivinable, undurable, unenduring,
unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed, unforeseeable, ungraded,
unguarded, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unordered,
unorganized, unorthodox, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable,
unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unregular, unreliable,
unresolved, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsorted,
unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady,
unsure, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, unthinking, unthoughtful,
ununiform, unverifiable, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, vague,
variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering,
vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton,
wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling,
wobbly
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
freakish, impulsive, whimsical
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