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capricious |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Capricious \Ca*pri"cious\, a. [Cf. F. capricleux It capriccioso.] Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. ``Capricious poet.'' --Shak. ``Capricious humor.'' --Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. --Hallam. Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain; inconstant; arbitrary. -- {Ca*pri"cious*ly}, adv -- {Ca*pri"cious*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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