'Whimsical' definitions:
Definition of 'whimsical'
(from WordNet)
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 'Whimsical'
From: GCIDE
- Whimsical \Whim"si*cal\, a. [From Whimsey.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. "A whimsical insult." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- My neighbors call me whimsical. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic. "A whimsical chair." --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Quaint; capricious; fanciful; fantastic. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'whimsical'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- agnostic,
- alternating,
- ambiguous,
- amorphous,
- amusing,
- anomalous,
- arbitrary,
- Attic,
- baroque,
- biting,
- bizarre,
- brain-born,
- brilliant,
- capricious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- clever,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- dicey,
- different,
- divergent,
- dizzy,
- dotty,
- doubting,
- dream-built,
- droll,
- eccentric,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- exceptional,
- extravagant,
- facetious,
- fanciful,
- fancy-born,
- fancy-built,
- fancy-woven,
- fantasied,
- fantasque,
- fantastic,
- fast and loose,
- fey,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flaky,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- florid,
- fluctuant,
- fluctuating,
- freakish,
- funny,
- giddy,
- Gothic,
- grotesque,
- harebrained,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hilarious,
- humorous,
- humorsome,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- iffy,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- incalculable,
- incongruous,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indemonstrable,
- infirm,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- jesting,
- jocose,
- jocular,
- joking,
- joky,
- joshing,
- keen,
- keen-witted,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- laughable,
- ludicrous,
- maggoty,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- mordant,
- motiveless,
- nimble-witted,
- notional,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- outlandish,
- peculiar,
- petulant,
- pointed,
- polysemous,
- preposterous,
- priceless,
- pungent,
- quaint,
- queer,
- quick-witted,
- quirky,
- quizzical,
- rambling,
- rapier-like,
- restless,
- rich,
- ridiculous,
- risible,
- rococo,
- roving,
- salt,
- salty,
- scatterbrained,
- scintillating,
- screaming,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- shapeless,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- singular,
- skeptical,
- smart,
- sparkling,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- sprightly,
- strange,
- temperamental,
- touch-and-go,
- twisted,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- unconfirmable,
- uncontrolled,
- unconventional,
- unconvinced,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- undivinable,
- unfixed,
- unforeseeable,
- unnatural,
- unpersuaded,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unreasonable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsure,
- unverifiable,
- vacillating,
- vagarious,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wacky,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- wild,
- wishy-washy,
- witty