capricious 音标拼音: [kəpr'ɪʃəs]
a . 反复无常的,善变的,任性的
反复无常的,善变的,任性的
capricious adj 1 :
changeable ; "
a capricious summer breeze "; "
freakish weather " [
synonym : {
capricious }, {
freakish }]
2 :
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 " [
synonym : {
capricious }, {
impulsive }, {
whimsical }]
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 ]
270 Moby Thesaurus words for "
capricious ":
adrift ,
afloat ,
agnostic ,
aimless ,
alternating ,
ambiguous ,
ambitendent ,
ambivalent ,
amorphous ,
arbitrary ,
at loose ends ,
brittle ,
broken ,
careening ,
careless ,
casual ,
catchy ,
chancy ,
changeable ,
changeful ,
changing ,
choppy ,
corruptible ,
cranky ,
crotchety ,
deciduous ,
desultory ,
deviable ,
deviating ,
deviative ,
deviatory ,
dicey ,
different ,
disarticulated ,
disconnected ,
discontinuous ,
disjunct ,
disordered ,
disorderly ,
dispersed ,
disproportionate ,
divaricate ,
divergent ,
diversified ,
diversiform ,
dizzy ,
double -
minded ,
doubting ,
dubious ,
dying ,
eccentric ,
effervescent ,
ephemeral ,
equivocal ,
erose ,
erratic ,
evanescent ,
fading ,
fanciful ,
fantasied ,
fantastic ,
fast and loose ,
fence -
sitting ,
fence -
straddling ,
fickle ,
fitful ,
flaky ,
fleeting ,
flickering ,
flighty ,
flitting ,
fluctuant ,
fluctuating ,
fly -
by -
night ,
flying ,
formless ,
fragile ,
frail ,
freakish ,
frivolous ,
fugacious ,
fugitive ,
giddy ,
gratuitous ,
guttering ,
halting ,
haphazard ,
harebrained ,
heedless ,
herky -
jerky ,
hesitant ,
hesitating ,
heteroclite ,
hit -
or -
miss ,
humorsome ,
iffy ,
immethodical ,
impermanent ,
impetuous ,
impulsive ,
inadvertent ,
incalculable ,
inchoate ,
incoherent ,
inconsiderate ,
inconsistent ,
inconstant ,
indecisive ,
indemonstrable ,
indiscriminate ,
infirm ,
infirm of purpose ,
insubstantial ,
intermittent ,
intermitting ,
irregular ,
irresolute ,
irresolved ,
irresponsible ,
jagged ,
jerky ,
kinky ,
lubricious ,
lurching ,
maggoty ,
mazy ,
meaningless ,
mercurial ,
misshapen ,
momentary ,
moody ,
mortal ,
motiveless ,
motley ,
mugwumpian ,
mugwumpish ,
mutable ,
nonconformist ,
nondurable ,
nonpermanent ,
nonstandard ,
nonsymmetrical ,
nonsystematic ,
nonuniform ,
notional ,
of two minds ,
orderless ,
passing ,
patchy ,
perishable ,
petulant ,
planless ,
pluralistic ,
polysemous ,
promiscuous ,
quirky ,
ragged ,
rambling ,
random ,
reasonless ,
restless ,
rough ,
roving ,
scatterbrained ,
scrappy ,
senseless ,
shapeless ,
shifting ,
shifty ,
short -
lived ,
shuffling ,
skeptical ,
snatchy ,
spasmatic ,
spasmic ,
spasmodic ,
spastic ,
spineless ,
sporadic ,
spotty ,
staggering ,
straggling ,
straggly ,
systemless ,
temperamental ,
temporal ,
temporary ,
thoughtless ,
ticklish ,
touch -
and -
go ,
transient ,
transitive ,
transitory ,
unaccountable ,
unarranged ,
uncalculating ,
uncertain ,
unclassified ,
unconfirmable ,
uncontrolled ,
unconvinced ,
undecided ,
undependable ,
undetermined ,
undirected ,
undisciplined ,
undivinable ,
undurable ,
unenduring ,
unequable ,
unequal ,
uneven ,
unfixed ,
unforeseeable ,
ungraded ,
unguarded ,
unjoined ,
unmethodical ,
unmetrical ,
unordered ,
unorganized ,
unorthodox ,
unpersuaded ,
unpredictable ,
unprovable ,
unreasonable ,
unreasoning ,
unreflecting ,
unregular ,
unreliable ,
unresolved ,
unrestrained ,
unrhythmical ,
unsettled ,
unsorted ,
unstable ,
unstable as water ,
unstaid ,
unsteadfast ,
unsteady ,
unsure ,
unsymmetrical ,
unsystematic ,
unthinking ,
unthoughtful ,
ununiform ,
unverifiable ,
vacillating ,
vagarious ,
vagrant ,
vague ,
variable ,
variegated ,
variform ,
various ,
varying ,
veering ,
vicissitudinary ,
vicissitudinous ,
volatile ,
wandering ,
wanton ,
wavering ,
wavery ,
wavy ,
wayward ,
whimsical ,
wishy -
washy ,
wobbling ,
wobbly
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