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capricious


 
  Grep  of  noun  capricious 
  capriciousness 
 
  Overview  of  adj  capricious 
 
  The  adj  capricious  has  2  senses  (no  senses  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  capricious,  freakish  --  (changeable;  "a  capricious  summer  breeze";  "freakish  weather") 
  2.  capricious,  impulsive,  whimsical  --  (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") 
 
  Antonyms  of  adj  capricious 
 
  2  senses  of  capricious 
 
  Sense  1 
  capricious,  freakish 
 
  INDIRECT  (VIA  unpredictable)  ->  predictable 
 
  Sense  2 
  capricious,  impulsive,  whimsical 
 
  INDIRECT  (VIA  arbitrary)  ->  nonarbitrary,  unarbitrary 
 
  Similarity  of  adj  capricious 
 
  2  senses  of  capricious 
 
  Sense  1 
  capricious,  freakish 
  =>  unpredictable  (vs.  predictable) 
 
  Sense  2 
  capricious,  impulsive,  whimsical 
  =>  arbitrary  (vs.  nonarbitrary) 
 
  Attributes  of  adj  capricious 
 
 
  Familiarity  of  adj  capricious 
 
  capricious  used  as  an  adjective  is  rare  (polysemy  count  =  2) 
 
  Grep  of  adj  capricious 
  capricious 
 
  Overview  of  adj  capricious 
 
  The  adj  capricious  has  2  senses  (no  senses  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  capricious,  freakish  --  (changeable;  "a  capricious  summer  breeze";  "freakish  weather") 
  2.  capricious,  impulsive,  whimsical  --  (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") 



capricious definition