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The list is as capricious—its bounds known only to its mysterious conceivers—as it is precise.

But that visceral experience of the crowd as a capricious-yet-mindless entity has stayed with me ever since.

He plays Wallace, a twentysomething medical school dropout who falls for Chantry (Zoe Kazan), a capricious animator/artist.

The capricious and inhumane imprisoning of the feminist activists from Pussy Riot.

We remain constantly curious about what great designers will turn out from their capricious artistic alchemy.

The nose more particularly appears and disappears in a capricious way in the drawings of the same child.

But this sudden blow was a reminder that fate had been capricious to spoiled darlings before.

Mariamne had grown more fantastic, and capricious, and wayward than ever.

There was also a moral reaction, and the boy became capricious, irritable, and unlike his former self.

No, give me deserts or precipices,—anything fixed and solid is better than this capricious, ever-changing sea.

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On this page you'll find 125 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to capricious, such as: arbitrary, careless, erratic, fickle, flighty, and helter-skelter.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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