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capricious
[ kuh-prish-uhs, -pree-shuhs ]
capricious
/ kəˈprɪʃəs /
adjective
- characterized by or liable to sudden unpredictable changes in attitude or behaviour; impulsive; fickle
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Derived Forms
- caˈpriciously, adverb
- caˈpriciousness, noun
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Other Words From
- ca·pri·cious·ly adverb
- ca·pri·cious·ness noun
- non·ca·pri·cious adjective
- non·ca·pri·cious·ly adverb
- un·ca·pri·cious adjective
- un·ca·pri·cious·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of capricious1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
The list is as capricious—its bounds known only to its mysterious conceivers—as it is precise.
But that visceral experience of the crowd as a capricious-yet-mindless entity has stayed with me ever since.
He plays Wallace, a twentysomething medical school dropout who falls for Chantry (Zoe Kazan), a capricious animator/artist.
The capricious and inhumane imprisoning of the feminist activists from Pussy Riot.
We remain constantly curious about what great designers will turn out from their capricious artistic alchemy.
The nose more particularly appears and disappears in a capricious way in the drawings of the same child.
But this sudden blow was a reminder that fate had been capricious to spoiled darlings before.
Mariamne had grown more fantastic, and capricious, and wayward than ever.
There was also a moral reaction, and the boy became capricious, irritable, and unlike his former self.
No, give me deserts or precipices,—anything fixed and solid is better than this capricious, ever-changing sea.
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