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Definition of Capricious
1. Adjective. Changeable. "Freakish weather"
2. Adjective. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason. "The victim of whimsical persecutions"
Similar to: Arbitrary
Derivative terms: Caprice, Capriciousness, Impulsiveness, Whimsicality, Whimsy, Whimsy
Definition of Capricious
1. a. Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.
Definition of Capricious
1. Adjective. Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Capricious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capricious
Literary usage of Capricious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the American Law of Administration by John Gabriel Woerner (1899)
"Distinction between Rational and capricious Will. — The distinction between truly
free or ... Since I may elect to the capricious will be rational (conform- ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: see CHANGEABLE, VACILLATING, capricious, UNSTABLE. 4. In a sense implying
continuation in time: continual, continued, persistent, sustained, ..."
3. The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations Arising from by Frederick Pollock (1908)
"capricious The capricious working of the action for seduction in of the law.
modern practice has often been the subject of censure. ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... and the succession of five centuries inflicted the various evils of military
license, capricious despotism, and elaborate oppression. ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"True child of the Renaissance as he was, his emotional, sensitive, superficial,
susceptible, and capricious nature stood in the strongest contrast to the ..."
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