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US
/ˈhwɪm, ˈwɪm/
]
[ UK /wˈɪm/ ]
[ UK /wˈɪm/ ]
NOUN
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a sudden desire
he bought it on an impulse -
an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories
he had a whimsy about flying to the moon
whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it
How To Use whim In A Sentence
- Products such as ottomans and bathmats made from recycled flip-flops are "whimsical and interesting, but it's not doing things at the deepest level. Designer Trash
- After making the sauce, I thought both potatoes and chickpeas sounded good, so on a whim I made a potato with panch phoron side dish -- but next time I would do 2 things differently. Archive 2009-04-01
- Ask yourself if you would rather have a free press, or a press at the whim of political masters? Times, Sunday Times
- No whimper, nor sound, nor sign of fear, came from Jerry — only choking growls of ferociousness, intermingled with snarls of anger, and a belligerent up-clawing of hind-legs. CHAPTER XVI
- My duties seem to change daily at the whim of the boss.
- On a whim, I responded to one of them, asking whether she ever comes into Center City.
- Too frequently the stories seem to settle for, at worst, an indulgence in superficial whimsy, at best, a cultivation of the bizarre in situation and event that, at least as I read them, can't bear the weight they're asked to bear when left to provide the primary source of dramatic interest. Genre Fiction
- Looking out the window, I can see an orange flame of whimsical light skimming the horizon, and hues of blue to grey look down benignly from above.
- This whimsical but dangerous world was depicted in a monumentally epic 15,000 page, single-spaced typed novel, "In the Realms of the Unreal".
- We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco.