Capricious

Word CAPRICIOUS
Character 10
Hyphenation ca pri cious
Pronunciations /kəˈpɹɪʃəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Capricious"

What do we mean by capricious?

Characterized by, arising from, or subject to caprice; impulsive or unpredictable. adjective

Characterized by caprice; apt to change opinions suddenly, or to deviate from one's purpose; unsteady; changeable; fickle; subject to change or irregularity: as, a man of a capricious temper.

Synonyms Freakish, unsteady, fanciful, whimsical, fitful, crotchety, uncertain.

Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. adjective

Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim adjective

Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason adjective

Changeable adjective

Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim

Unpredictable, willful, whimsical. Urban Dictionary

Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable. See F.Lee Urban Dictionary

BALLER. Urban Dictionary

The quality of being unnecessarily unpredictable in one’s views and opinions such that they confuse those around you. Urban Dictionary

The characteristic of being unnecessarily unpredictable in one’s views or opinions such they they confuse or confound others. Urban Dictionary

Linde pringe is gosh darn capricious Urban Dictionary

When your girl wants to divide you many separate pieces. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Capricious

The word "capricious" in example sentences

I have just left Augereau, who was vomiting fire and fury against what he calls your capricious proclamations. ❋ Various (N/A)

Woman is less changeable, but to call her capricious is a stupid insult. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

One of Trine's would-be selling points is its physics-based puzzles, but history has taught us by now that "physics-based" is often a euphemism for "capricious" - and that's the case here. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In “Thoroughbreds and Blackguards,” Burnaugh argues that the sport’s great competitive impediment, and the temptation that renders it uniquely capricious, is the influence of gambling. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Still, most of what we ask that dogs learn can only be described as capricious and arbitrary. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)

One thing, however, must astonish the kindly-disposed observer and vex him a little; that is, the capricious and disproportionate manner in which oaths are paid for, the inequality of the prices that M. Bonaparte places on this commodity. ❋ Victor Hugo (1843)

Verizon's lawsuit claims the rules, which largely exempt wireless networks, are "arbitrary" and "capricious"-the same charges recently ❋ Nate Anderson (2011)

Also she considered that we were masters, that is to say capricious creatures, who do not shine by their intelligence and take pleasure in imposing by fear upon clever people, upon servants, so as to shew that they are the masters, absurd tasks such as that of boiling water when there is illness in the house, of mopping the floor of my room with a damp cloth, and of leaving it at the very moment when they intended to remain in it. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Bobbie was all for May, because the book said that women born in that month were "inclined to be capricious, which is always a barrier to a happy married life"; but I plumped for February, because February women ❋ Unknown (1928)

While some book reviewers are also skillful critics (Sven Birkerts, Louis Menand, Daniel Mendelsohn) able to use the book review form to more precisely critical ends, Ozick is right to maintain that the judgments of book reviewers, even reviewers who are themselves writers, are too often "capricious," too often constrained by the formulaic structure of the book review. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Shawcross, who once worked for Evans, wrote that he was a bad manager and a "capricious" editor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sometimes also they are arbitrary, at least dependent on a kind of capricious analogy like many of the reasonings of lawyers. 11 ❋ Unknown (2006)

They're kind of capricious about that, requiring registration for some stories and not for others. ❋ Unknown (2005)

[The pop] star [Madonna] has changed her image so many times that each new transformation now appears capricious rather than [purposeful]. ❋ LarstaiT (2003)

Frankasy and Jobenlex are [two] capricious [people]. ❋ Karan13 (2004)

A: sarah [klatt] is [BALLER] B: [hell yeah], shes capricious ❋ Genius Who Knows Everything (2008)

I’m sick of [Maurie]. One day it’s this the next day it’s that. He’s such a [capricious] [old cunt]. ❋ EkDum (2022)

I’m sick of [Maurie]. One day it’s this the next day it’s that. He’s such a [capricious] [old cunt]. ❋ EkDum (2022)

[Linde] takes lizards as honeymoon pets and [own it] like a boss she is so [capricious] ❋ Rightharerightmeow (2018)

[Yo] [my girl] [keeps] calling me a Capricious Division man. ❋ ExodusIsntAGigglePus (2023)

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