English adjective: capricious | |||
| 1. | capricious changeable | ||
| Samples | A capricious summer breeze. Freakish weather. | ||
| Synonyms | freakish | ||
| Similar | unpredictable | ||
| Antonyms | predictable | ||
| 2. | capricious determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | ||
| Samples | A capricious refusal. Authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious. The victim of whimsical persecutions. | ||
| Synonyms | impulsive, whimsical | ||
| Similar | arbitrary | ||
| Antonyms | nonarbitrary, unarbitrary | ||