'Capricious' definitions:
Definition of 'capricious'
From: WordNet
adjective
Changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather" [syn: capricious, freakish]
adjective
Definition of 'Capricious'
From: GCIDE
- Capricious \Ca*pri"cious\ (k[.a]*pr[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [Cf. F. capricieux, It. capriccioso.] Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." --Shak. "Capricious humor." --Hugh Miller. [1913 Webster]
- A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. --Hallam.
- Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain; inconstant; arbitrary. -- {Ca*pri"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Ca*pri"cious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'capricious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adrift,
- afloat,
- agnostic,
- aimless,
- alternating,
- ambiguous,
- ambitendent,
- ambivalent,
- amorphous,
- arbitrary,
- at loose ends,
- brittle,
- broken,
- careening,
- careless,
- casual,
- catchy,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- changing,
- choppy,
- corruptible,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- deciduous,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- dicey,
- different,
- disarticulated,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- divaricate,
- divergent,
- diversified,
- diversiform,
- dizzy,
- double-minded,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- dying,
- eccentric,
- effervescent,
- ephemeral,
- equivocal,
- erose,
- erratic,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fanciful,
- fantasied,
- fantastic,
- fast and loose,
- fence-sitting,
- fence-straddling,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flaky,
- fleeting,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuant,
- fluctuating,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- formless,
- fragile,
- frail,
- freakish,
- frivolous,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- giddy,
- gratuitous,
- guttering,
- halting,
- haphazard,
- harebrained,
- heedless,
- herky-jerky,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- heteroclite,
- hit-or-miss,
- humorsome,
- iffy,
- immethodical,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inadvertent,
- incalculable,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconsiderate,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indemonstrable,
- indiscriminate,
- infirm,
- infirm of purpose,
- insubstantial,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresolved,
- irresponsible,
- jagged,
- jerky,
- kinky,
- lubricious,
- lurching,
- maggoty,
- mazy,
- meaningless,
- mercurial,
- misshapen,
- momentary,
- moody,
- mortal,
- motiveless,
- motley,
- mugwumpian,
- mugwumpish,
- mutable,
- nonconformist,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- nonstandard,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- notional,
- of two minds,
- orderless,
- passing,
- patchy,
- perishable,
- petulant,
- planless,
- pluralistic,
- polysemous,
- promiscuous,
- quirky,
- ragged,
- rambling,
- random,
- reasonless,
- restless,
- rough,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- scrappy,
- senseless,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- short-lived,
- shuffling,
- skeptical,
- snatchy,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- spineless,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- staggering,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- systemless,
- temperamental,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- thoughtless,
- ticklish,
- touch-and-go,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- unaccountable,
- unarranged,
- uncalculating,
- uncertain,
- unclassified,
- unconfirmable,
- uncontrolled,
- unconvinced,
- undecided,
- undependable,
- undetermined,
- undirected,
- undisciplined,
- undivinable,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unequable,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unfixed,
- unforeseeable,
- ungraded,
- unguarded,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unorthodox,
- unpersuaded,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unreasonable,
- unreasoning,
- unreflecting,
- unregular,
- unreliable,
- unresolved,
- unrestrained,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsorted,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsure,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- unthinking,
- unthoughtful,
- ununiform,
- unverifiable,
- vacillating,
- vagarious,
- vagrant,
- vague,
- variable,
- variegated,
- variform,
- various,
- varying,
- veering,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy,
- wobbling,
- wobbly