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
capriciousness
n 1: the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses
[syn: unpredictability]
2: the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or
caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the
flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" [syn: flightiness,
arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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