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All capricious synonyms

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adj capricious

  • whimsical — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
  • wayward — turned or turning away from what is right or proper; willful; disobedient: a wayward son; wayward behavior.
  • quirky — having or full of quirks.
  • unreasonable — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
  • helter-skelter — in headlong and disorderly haste: The children ran helter-skelter all over the house.
  • unpredictable — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • fickle — Changing frequently, esp. as regards one's loyalties, interests, or affection.
  • unstable — not stable; not firm or firmly fixed; unsteady.
  • careless — If you are careless, you do not pay enough attention to what you are doing, and so you make mistakes, or cause harm or damage.
  • arbitrary — If you describe an action, rule, or decision as arbitrary, you think that it is not based on any principle, plan, or system. It often seems unfair because of this.
  • flighty — given to flights of fancy; capricious; frivolous.
  • volatile — evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent.
  • impulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
  • temperamental — having or exhibiting a strongly marked, individual temperament.
  • contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
  • crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
  • effervescent — effervescing; bubbling.
  • fanciful — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
  • fitful — coming, appearing, acting, etc., in fits or by spells; recurring irregularly.
  • flaky — of or like flakes.
  • freakish — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
  • inconstant — not constant; changeable; fickle; variable: an inconstant friend.
  • kinky — full of kinks; closely twisted: a kinky wire.
  • mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
  • moody — given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored.
  • mutable — liable or subject to change or alteration.
  • odd — differing in nature from what is ordinary, usual, or expected: an odd choice.
  • picky — extremely fussy or finicky, usually over trifles.
  • punchy — punch-drunk.
  • queer — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
  • ticklish — sensitive to tickling.
  • variable — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
  • gaga — crazy, insane
  • lubricious — arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous.
  • notional — pertaining to or expressing a notion or idea.
  • changeful — often changing; inconstant; variable
  • up and down — moving in or related to a direction that is up or is regarded as up: the up elevator; the up train traveling north; the up platform of a railroad station.
  • vagarious — characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious: a vagarious foreign policy.
  • yo-yo — a spoollike toy consisting of two thick wooden, plastic, or metal disks connected by a dowel pin in the center to which a string is attached, one end being looped around the player's finger so that the toy can be spun out and reeled in by wrist motion.

adjective capricious

  • changeable — Someone or something that is changeable is likely to change many times.
  • unreliable — not reliable; not to be relied or depended on.
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