Definition of Capricious

Capricious

Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.

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Apt, By, Caprice, Change, Changeable, Characterized, Freakish, Governed, Or, To, Whimsical

Capricious Quotations

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Jonathan Swift

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara Tuchman

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
John Cheever

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
William Hurt

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
George Ryan

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Capricious Translations

capricious in Dutch is grillig, nukkig, onberekenbaar
capricious in Swedish is nyckfull

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