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| Main Entry: | caprice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden change of behavior |
| Synonyms: | bee*, caper*, crotchet, fad, fancy, freak, gag*, humor, impulse, inconsistency, jerk, kink, mood, notion, peculiarity, put on*, quirk, rib*, temper, thought, vagary, vein, whim, whimsy, changeableness, contrariety, fickleness, fitfulness, fool notion, inconstancy, perversity |
| Antonyms: | constancy, constant, dependability, steadfastness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness; kink.
-verbs
be capricious; have a maggot in the brain; take it into one's head, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; blow hot and cold; play fast and loose, play fantastic tricks; tourner casaque.
-adjectives
capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims.; maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky [U.S.], particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable [more]; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle (irresolute) [more]; frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile.
-adverbs
by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason.
-phrases
nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi; the deuce is in him.
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| Main Entry: | eccentricity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bizarreness, unusualness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, anomaly, caprice, foible, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, kink, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, strangeness, capriciousness, freakishness, hereticism, idiocrasy, oddness, outlandishness, queerness, singularity, unconventionality, unorthodoxness, waywardness, weirdness, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
| Antonyms: | dullness, normality, standard, uniformity, usual, commonality, regularness, usualness |
| Main Entry: | fad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craze |
| Synonyms: | affectation, amusement, caprice, chic, conceit, cry, custom, dernier cri, eccentricity, fancy, fantasy, fashion, frivolity, furor, hobby, humor, innovation, kick, kink, mania, mode, passion, quirk, rage, sport, style, thing, trend, vagary, vogue, whim, whimsy, wrinkle, fool notion, in, in thing, latest word, new look, newest wrinkle, passing fancy |
| Antonyms: | standard, tradition |
| Main Entry: | fit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seizure; sudden emotion |
| Synonyms: | access, attack, blow, bout, burst, caprice, convulsion, frenzy, humor, mood, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, rage, rush, spasm, spate, spell, stroke, tantrum, throe, torrent, turn, twitch, whim, whimsy, conniption, epileptic attack, jumps |
| Main Entry: | mood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind |
| Synonyms: | affection, air, atmosphere, attitude, aura, bent*, blues*, caprice, character, color*, condition, crotchet, cue, depression, desire, disposition, doldrums, dumps*, emotion, fancy, feel*, feeling, frame of mind*, humor, inclination, individuality, melancholy, mind, personality, pleasure, propensity, response, scene, semblance, soul, spirit, strain, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, timbre, vagary, vein, whim, wish, high spirits, low spirits |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practical joke; frivolity |
| Synonyms: | antic, caper, caprice, escapade, fancy, fooling, frolic, gag, gambol, high jinks, horseplay*, hotfoot*, lark, levity, lightness, play, rib*, rollick, roughhouse, shenanigans, shine*, spoof, sport, tomfoolery, trick, whim, monkeyshines, put-on, roughhousing, rowdiness, skylarking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quirk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | oddity of personality, way of doing something |
| Synonyms: | aberration, caprice, characteristic, conceit, crotchet, eccentricity, equivocation, fancy, fetish, foible, habit, humor, idée fixe, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, kink, knack, mannerism, peculiarity, quibble, subterfuge, trait, turn, twist, vagary, whim, whimsy, singularity |
| Main Entry: | whim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden idea |
| Synonyms: | caprice, conceit, craze, desire, disposition, dream, fad, fancy, fantasy, freak, humor, impulse, inclination, notion, quirk, sport, thought, urge, vagary, vision, whimsy, passing thought |
| Antonyms: | plan |
| Main Entry: | snap decision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | snap judgment |
| Synonyms: | caprice, impulse, inclination, notion, whim, sudden inclination |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impulse, urge |
| Synonyms: | caprice, conceit, conception, contrariness, creation, cup of tea*, desire, druthers, flash, fool's paradise, groove*, humor, idea, image, imagination, impression, inclination, irrationality, liking, mind, notion, perverseness, pleasure, thing*, thought, vagary, velleity, visualization, weakness for, whim, will |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impulse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drive, resolve |
| Synonyms: | appeal, bent, caprice, catalyst, desire, disposition, fancy, feeling, flash*, goad, hunch, incitement, inclination, influence, inspiration, instinct, itch*, lash, lust, mind, motivation, motive, notion, passion, spontaneity, spur, thought, urge, vagary, whim, whimsy, wish, yen, actuation, excitant, extemporization, impellent, impulsion, incitation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | joke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fun, quip |
| Synonyms: | antic, burlesque, caper, caprice, drollery, epigram, escapade, farce, frolic, gag, gambol, game, horseplay*, humor, jape, jest, lark, laugh, mischief, monkeyshine*, one-liner*, parody, payoff, play, pleasantry, prank, pun, quirk, raillery, repartee, revel, rib, sally, snow job*, sport, spree, stunt, tomfoolery, trick, vagary, whimsy, wisecrack, witticism, yarn, bon mot, buffoonery, chestnut*, clowning, ha-ha, hoodwinking, mummery, put-on, saw, shaggy-dog story, shenanigan |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | freak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irregularity, whim |
| Synonyms: | caprice, conceit, fad, fancy, folly, humor, megrim, quirk, turn, twist, vagary, whimsy, crochet |
| Antonyms: | ordinary, regularity, commonality |
| Main Entry: | humor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mood, temperament |
| Synonyms: | bee, bent, bias, caprice, character, complexion, conceit, disposition, fancy, frame of mind, individuality, makeup, mind, nature, notion, personality, propensity, quirk, spirits, strain, temper, tone, vagary, vein, whim, individualism |
| Main Entry: | notion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whim, desire |
| Synonyms: | caprice, conceit, fancy, humor, imagination, impulse, inclination, wish |
| Antonyms: | need |
| Main Entry: | rage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something in vogue; popular notion |
| Synonyms: | caprice, chic, conceit, craze, crotchet, cry, dernier cri, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fashion, freak, furor, happening, last word*, latest, latest thing*, mania, mode, now*, passion, style, thing*, vagary, whim, hot spot, in, in-spot, in-thing, latest wrinkle, newest wrinkle, up to the minute |
| Notes: | ire suggests greater intensity than anger, rage suggests loss of self-control, and fury is destructive rage verging on madness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | whimsy |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | odd or fanciful notion |
| Synonyms: | caprice, fancy, idea, impulse, notion, whim |
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