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[ US /kəˈpɹɪʃəs/ ]
[ US /kəˈpɹɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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changeable
freakish weather
a capricious summer breeze -
determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious
the victim of whimsical persecutions
a capricious refusal
How To Use capricious In A Sentence
- This capricious beast had been trained to caracole, and his owner had taken to impressing girls by making the beast execute this pretty trick whenever he saw one. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- My sense of Tiberius is that he was a bad emperor for the Roman elites in the capital, to whom he was a capricious, paranoid tyrant. Matthew Yglesias » What Would The Roman Empire Do?
- And I should loathe for us to founder on so capricious and arbitrary a matter as a technical glitch. Times, Sunday Times
- Your Honour, from my perspective I am trying to understand the arbitrary and capricious argument that my learned friends are putting forward.
- To prefer food to art, capriciousness and indulgence to "simplicity" and "contemplat [ion]," and eating to other forms of incorporation, is, of course, a female or effeminated preference (Gill 597). Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted
- It will be a difficult task as the ship has become overloaded, capricious and the ocean is tempestuous.
- Concerned the President does not view gay men and women as "human beings whose lives, loves, and families are equal" to his own, Solomnese mockingly offered to "reintroduce" the LGBT community to their capricious ally in the White House. RedState
- a capricious summer breeze
- This battle between cold and hot is why Easter weather is so capricious. Times, Sunday Times
- Pan is most often portrayed with the torso of a man, the hooved legs and twisty horns of a wild goat, and the capricious face of a human.
