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English Dictionary: capricious	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for capricious
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
capricious adj changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather" Synonym(s): capricious, freakish 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(s): capricious, impulsive, whimsical
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Capricious \Capri"cious\, a. [Cf. F. capricleux, It. capriccioso.] Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. [bd]Capricious* poet.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Capricious humor.[b8] --Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. --Hallam. Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain; inconstant; arbitrary. -- {Capri"ciously}, adv. -- {Capri"ciousness}, n.