Whimsical \Whim"si*cal\, a. [From Whimsey.]
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1. Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim;
having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. "A
whimsical insult." --Macaulay.
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My neighbors call me whimsical. --Addison.
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2. Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised;
fantastic. "A whimsical chair." --Evelyn.
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Syn: Quaint; capricious; fanciful; fantastic.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
whimsical
adj : 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: capricious, impulsive]
WordNet (r) 2.0
198 Moby Thesaurus words for "whimsical":
Attic, Gothic, abnormal, absurd, adrift, afloat, agnostic,
alternating, ambiguous, amorphous, amusing, anomalous, arbitrary,
baroque, biting, bizarre, brain-born, brilliant, capricious,
chancy, changeable, changeful, clever, crank, crankish, cranky,
crotchety, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviative, dicey,
different, divergent, dizzy, dotty, doubting, dream-built, droll,
eccentric, equivocal, erratic, exceptional, extravagant, facetious,
fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied,
fantasque, fantastic, fast and loose, fey, fickle, fitful, flaky,
flickering, flighty, flitting, florid, fluctuant, fluctuating,
freakish, funny, giddy, grotesque, harebrained, hesitant,
hesitating, hilarious, humorous, humorsome, idiocratic,
idiosyncratic, iffy, impetuous, impulsive, incalculable,
incongruous, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indemonstrable,
infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jesting, jocose,
jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, kinky, kooky,
laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, mazy, mercurial, moody, mordant,
motiveless, nimble-witted, notional, nutty, odd, oddball,
outlandish, peculiar, petulant, pointed, polysemous, preposterous,
priceless, pungent, quaint, queer, quick-witted, quirky, quizzical,
rambling, rapier-like, restless, rich, ridiculous, risible, rococo,
roving, salt, salty, scatterbrained, scintillating, screaming,
screwball, screwy, shapeless, sharp, shifting, shifty, shuffling,
singular, skeptical, smart, sparkling, spasmodic, spineless,
sprightly, strange, temperamental, touch-and-go, twisted,
unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, uncontrolled,
unconventional, unconvinced, undependable, undisciplined,
undivinable, unfixed, unforeseeable, unnatural, unpersuaded,
unpredictable, unprovable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained,
unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast,
unsteady, unsure, unverifiable, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant,
variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wacky,
wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, wild,
wishy-washy, witty
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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