capricious

Synonyms for capricious

adj given to sudden behavior change

adjective. marked by opposite extremes

adjective. dangerous, risky

adjective. contrary to common sense

1590s, from French capricieux "whimsical" (16c.), from Italian capriccioso, from capriccio (see caprice). Related: Capriciously; capriciousness.

All is still on a colossal scale, but playful, capricious, phantasmagoric.

How noisy and romping the brook was; how capricious, how playful, how furtive!

Art is not dignified by being called whimsical--or capricious.

Your duty to your capricious brother, not to your father, you mean, Madam.

The rouge-et-noir player imagines that chance is not capricious.

So many women are capricious, breaking into odd flaws of passion or frivolity.

Of such a quality is the love of princes—vain, capricious, and wilful.

I bore his horrible humors, his mad, irritating, capricious temper.

The vine is a capricious grower and is particular as to soil and climate.

"It is a capricious kind of thing, after all, is your Irish fidelity," said Polly.