Synonyms for capricious
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : kuh-prish-uhs, -pree-shuhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : kəˈprɪʃ əs, -ˈpri ʃəs |
Top 10 synonyms for capricious
- any way the wind blows
- blowing hot and cold
- changeful
- contrary
- crotchety
- effervescent
- every which way
- fanciful
- fitful
- flaky
- freakish
- gaga
- humorsome
- inconstant
- kinky
- lubricious
- mercurial
- moody
- mutable
- notional
- odd
- picky
- punchy
- queer
- ticklish
- unreasonable
- unstable
- up and down
- vagarious
- variable
- volatile
- wayward
- whimsical
- yo-yo
Définition of capricious
Origin :- 1590s, from French capricieux "whimsical" (16c.), from Italian capriccioso, from capriccio (see caprice). Related: Capriciously; capriciousness.
- adj given to sudden behavior change
- All is still on a colossal scale, but playful, capricious, phantasmagoric.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- How noisy and romping the brook was; how capricious, how playful, how furtive!
- Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field
- Art is not dignified by being called whimsical--or capricious.
- Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
- Your duty to your capricious brother, not to your father, you mean, Madam.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- The rouge-et-noir player imagines that chance is not capricious.
- Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
- So many women are capricious, breaking into odd flaws of passion or frivolity.
- Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
- Of such a quality is the love of princes—vain, capricious, and wilful.
- Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
- I bore his horrible humors, his mad, irritating, capricious temper.
- Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
- The vine is a capricious grower and is particular as to soil and climate.
- Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick
- "It is a capricious kind of thing, after all, is your Irish fidelity," said Polly.
- Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
Antonyms for capricious
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