| Main Entry: | crotchet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quirk |
Synonyms: |
caprice, eccentricity, fancy, freak, notion, peculiarity, trait, vagary, whim |
| Main Entry: | caprice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden change of behavior |
Synonyms: |
bee, caper*, changeableness, contrariety, crotchet, fad, fancy, fickleness, fitfulness, fool notion, freak, gag, humor, impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, jerk, kink, mood, notion, peculiarity, perversity, put on*, quirk, rib, temper, thought, vagary, vein, whim, whimsy |
Antonyms: |
constancy, constant, dependability, steadfastness |
| 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, high spirits, humor, inclination, individuality, low spirits, melancholy, mind, personality, pleasure, propensity, response, scene, semblance, soul, spirit, strain, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, timbre, vagary, vein, whim, wish |
Antonyms: |
health |
| 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, idiosyncrasy, idée fixe, irregularity, kink, knack, mannerism, peculiarity, quibble, singularity, subterfuge, trait, turn, twist, vagary, whim, whimsy |
| 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, hot spot, in, in-spot, in-thing, last word, latest, latest thing, latest wrinkle, mania, mode, newest wrinkle, now*, passion, style, thing*, up to the minute, vagary, whim |
| Notes: | ire suggests greater intensity than anger, rage suggests loss of self-control, and fury is destructive rage verging on madness |
| Main Entry: | trick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | characteristic, habit |
Synonyms: |
crotchet, custom, foible, habitude, idiosyncrasy, manner, mannerism, peculiarity, practice, praxis, quirk, trait, usage, use, way, wont |
| Main Entry: | twist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden development; oddity |
Synonyms: |
aberration, bent, change, characteristic, confusion, crotchet, eccentricity, entanglement, foible, idiosyncrasy, kink, knot, mess, mix-up, peculiarity, proclivity, quirk, revelation, screw-up, slant, snarl, surprise, tangle, trait, turn, variation |
| Main Entry: | vagary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caprice |
Synonyms: |
crotchet, fancy, fool notion, humor, idea, impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, notion, quirk, whim, whimsy |
| Concept: | Caprice. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of Volition |
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; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle (irresolute); 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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