capricious
1. changeable - a capricious summer breeze - freakish weather • Syn: freakish • Similar to: unpredictable • Derivationally related forms: freakishness (for: freakish), capriciousness 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 • Syn: impulsive, whimsical • Similar to: arbitrary • Derivationally related forms: whimsy (for: whimsical), whimsicality (for: whimsical), impulsiveness (for: impulsive), caprice, capriciousness
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