capricious

capricious
Synonyms and related words:
adrift, afloat, agnostic, aimless, alternating, ambiguous, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, arbitrary, at loose ends, brittle, broken, careening, careless, casual, catchy, chancy, changeable, changeful, changing, choppy, corruptible, cranky, crotchety, deciduous, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dicey, different, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, double-minded, doubting, dubious, dying, eccentric, effervescent, ephemeral, equivocal, erose, erratic, evanescent, fading, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fitful, flaky, fleeting, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuating, fly-by-night, flying, formless, fragile, frail, freakish, frivolous, fugacious, fugitive, giddy, gratuitous, guttering, halting, haphazard, harebrained, heedless, herky-jerky, hesitant, hesitating, heteroclite, hit-or-miss, humorsome, iffy, immethodical, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inadvertent, incalculable, inchoate, incoherent, inconsiderate, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indemonstrable, indiscriminate, infirm, infirm of purpose, insubstantial, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, kinky, lubricious, lurching, maggoty, mazy, meaningless, mercurial, misshapen, momentary, moody, mortal, motiveless, motley, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mutable, nonconformist, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, notional, of two minds, orderless, passing, patchy, perishable, petulant, planless, pluralistic, polysemous, promiscuous, quirky, ragged, rambling, random, reasonless, restless, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, senseless, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, skeptical, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering, straggling, straggly, systemless, temperamental, temporal, temporary, thoughtless, ticklish, touch-and-go, transient, transitive, transitory, unaccountable, unarranged, uncalculating, uncertain, unclassified, unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undecided, undependable, undetermined, undirected, undisciplined, undivinable, undurable, unenduring, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed, unforeseeable, ungraded, unguarded, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unordered, unorganized, unorthodox, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unregular, unreliable, unresolved, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsorted, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, unthinking, unthoughtful, ununiform, unverifiable, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, vague, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly

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  • capricious — ca·pri·cious /kə pri shəs, prē / adj 1: governed or characterized by impulse or whim: as a: lacking a rational basis b: likely to change suddenly 2: not supported by the weight of evidence or established rules of law often used in the phrase… …   Law dictionary

  • Capricious — Ca*pri cious (k[.a]*pr[i^]sh [u^]s), a. [Cf. F. capricieux, It. capriccioso.] Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. Capricious poet. Shak. Capricious humor. Hugh Miller. [1913 Webster] A… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • capricious — 1590s, from Fr. capricieux (16c.), from It. capriccioso, from capriccio (see CAPRICCIO (Cf. capriccio)). Related: Capriciously; capriciousness …   Etymology dictionary

  • capricious — mercurial, unstable, *inconstant, fickle Analogous words: *changeable, changeful, protean, variable: moody, humorsome (see corresponding nouns at MOOD): volatile, effervescent (see ELASTIC) Antonyms: steadfast Contrasted words: constant, resolute …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • capricious — [adj] given to sudden behavior change any way the wind blows*, arbitrary, blowing hot and cold*, careless, changeful, contrary, crotchety, effervescent, erratic, every which way*, fanciful, fickle, fitful, flaky*, flighty, freakish, gaga*, helter …   New thesaurus

  • capricious — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour. DERIVATIVES capriciously adverb capriciousness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • capricious — [kə prish′əs, kəprē′shəs] adj. [Fr capricieux < It capriccioso: see CAPRICE] 1. subject to caprices; tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason; erratic; flighty 2. Obs. showing wit or fancifulness SYN. INCONSTANT capriciously adv …   English World dictionary

  • capricious — [[t]kæprɪ̱ʃəs[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly. Gerald found that his wife was easily bored, capricious and unpredictable. ...capricious and often brutal leaders. Syn: impulsive, mercurial Derived …   English dictionary

  • capricious — adj. capricious to + inf. (it was capricious to act in that manner) * * * [kə prɪʃəs] capricious to + inf. (it was capricious to act in that manner) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • capricious — adjective Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim I almost died in a capricious winter storm. Syn: whimsical, arbitrary …   Wiktionary

  • capricious — ca|pri|cious [kəˈprıʃəs] adj 1.) likely to change your mind suddenly or behave in an unexpected way ▪ She was as capricious as her mother had been. 2.) literary changing quickly and suddenly ▪ a capricious wind >capriciously adv …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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