Thesaurus / capricious
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synonyms for capricious
- arbitrary
- careless
- erratic
- fickle
- flighty
- helter-skelter
- impulsive
- quirky
- temperamental
- unpredictable
- unreasonable
- unstable
- volatile
- wayward
- whimsical
- any way the wind blows
- blowing hot and cold
- changeful
- contrary
- crotchety
- effervescent
- every which way
- fanciful
- fitful
- flaky
- freakish
- gaga
- humorsome
- inconstant
- kinky
- lubricious
- mercurial
- moody
- mutable
- notional
- odd
- picky
- punchy
- queer
- ticklish
- up and down
- vagarious
- variable
- yo-yo
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Since 1971, the capricious and excessive use of solitary confinement has only intensified in America’s prisons.
50 YEARS AFTER ATTICA, PRISONERS ARE STILL PROTESTING BRUTAL CONDITIONS. WILL AMERICA FINALLY LISTEN?HEATHER ANN THOMPSONSEPTEMBER 8, 2021TIMEAs the action accelerates, Marsac — at times a bit slow on the uptake — keeps wondering about the capricious, headstrong and infuriating Mademoiselle de la Vire.
FLASHING BLADES, SECRET PASSAGES, MISTAKEN IDENTITIES: ‘A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE’ IS A CLASSIC ADVENTURE TALEMICHAEL DIRDASEPTEMBER 1, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHe maintained that the first allegiance of a Catholic was to the example of Christ, not to the church’s hierarchy and what he considered its capricious and outmoded rules.
HANS KÜNG, CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN WHO CHALLENGED PAPAL AUTHORITY, DIES AT 93MATT SCHUDELAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe nose more particularly appears and disappears in a capricious way in the drawings of the same child.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYBut this sudden blow was a reminder that fate had been capricious to spoiled darlings before.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONMariamne had grown more fantastic, and capricious, and wayward than ever.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSThere was also a moral reaction, and the boy became capricious, irritable, and unlike his former self.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKYNo, give me deserts or precipices,—anything fixed and solid is better than this capricious, ever-changing sea.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONBut the Ocean is a capricious old fellow, who takes all shapes and sings in many voices.
CHILD LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYANATOLE FRANCEThe merchant would no longer expose his cargoes to the mountainous billows and capricious gales of the Antarctic seas.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYWORDS RELATED TO CAPRICIOUS
- accidental
- any which way
- bits-and-pieces
- blind
- capricious
- careless
- casual
- chance
- desultory
- directionless
- drifting
- erratic
- fanciful
- fickle
- fits and starts
- flighty
- fortuitous
- frivolous
- goalless
- haphazard
- heedless
- hit-or-miss
- indecisive
- indiscriminate
- irresolute
- objectless
- pointless
- purposeless
- random
- shiftless
- stray
- thoughtless
- unavailing
- undirected
- unguided
- unplanned
- unpredictable
- vagrant
- wandering
- wanton
- wayward
- agitated
- capricious
- changeful
- commutative
- convertible
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- fluctuating
- fluid
- impulsive
- inconstant
- indecisive
- irregular
- irresolute
- irresponsible
- kaleidoscopic
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- mutable
- permutable
- protean
- restless
- reversible
- revocable
- shifting
- skittish
- spasmodic
- transformable
- transitional
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- vacillating
- vagrant
- variable
- variant
- varying
- versatile
- volatile
- wavering
- whimsical
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