whimsey
Americannoun
-
whimseys
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Also, if you haven’t yet seen the 2016 film “Alice: Through the Looking Glass,” you can cap off the summer with a bit of Wonderland whimsey.
From Fox News ● Jul. 30, 2020
As long as The Wizard of Oz sticks to whimsey and magic, it floats in the same rare atmosphere of enchantment that distinguished Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
From Time ● Sep. 17, 2013
For one thing, circumstantial whimsey is balanced against the pathos of characters trying to take their increasingly weird lives seriously.
From Time Magazine Archive
After long pondering over what tribute whimsey should pay wit, Saroyan finally loaded himself down with $20 worth of greengrocer specialties, including hothouse melon, asparagus, mushrooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sophie was too much in earnest to respond to the whimsey.
From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard
He is not only the first citizen of the town, he is its soul, its genius, he has all its finest whimseys.
From Tartarin On The Alps by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
He is too good a sort to go to seed with his confounded whimseys; so I determined to take a different tone with him.
From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird
In the multitudinous whimseys of a disabled mind and body, the thick-coming fancies often come to me that the events which affect my life and adventures are specially shaped to disappoint my purposes.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
These are the whimseys of the mass - the harmless follies by which they unconsciously endeavour to lighten the load of care which presses upon their existence.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
"You speak without hesitation, and it is through your ability to settle such whimseys out of hand that you will yet win, it may be, to success."
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
