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Synonyms for whim

Grammar : Noun
Spell : hwim, wim
Phonetic Transcription : ʰwɪm, wɪm

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Définition of whim

Origin :
  • 1640s, "pun or play on words," shortened from whimwham "fanciful object" (q.v.). Meaning "sudden notion, fancy, or idea" first recorded 1690s, probably a shortened form of whimsy.
  • noun sudden idea
Example sentences :
  • It seemed to have a vast inorganic life of its own, a volition and a whim.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • It suited his whim, and it did more than that: it gave him a chance to speak to her in his teasing way.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Indeed, Van Baerle's happiness depended on the whim of this man.
  • Extract from : « The Black Tulip » by Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
  • The whim had seized her and was holding on tight that Emmeline's might be the Right Place.
  • Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • He's been satisfying every whim of curiosity that pops into his mind.
  • Extract from : « The Big Tomorrow » by Paul Lohrman
  • The whim seized me, quite unaccountably, in the middle of last night.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • Mark you, it is not wisdom but a whim of mine which causes me to be graciously minded!
  • Extract from : « Priestess of the Flame » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
  • It was her whim to be sad, and she brought him the book they were reading.
  • Extract from : « Poems » by William D. Howells
  • Obvious punctuation errors repaired.with the exception of emdashes and long dashes which seem to have been chosen on a whim.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • I did not know whether to resent the whim or not, whether to be angry or indifferent.
  • Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln

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