All capricious synonyms
ca·pri·cious
C c 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.