'Capricious' definitions:

Definition of 'capricious'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather" [syn: capricious, freakish]
adjective
Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions" [syn: capricious, impulsive, whimsical]

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'

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Words containing 'Capricious'