capricious
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
changeable
a capricious summer breeze
Related & opposite
- capriciousness derivation
- freakishness derivation
- unpredictable similar to
Sense 2 adjective
determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
a capricious refusal
Related & opposite
- impulsiveness derivation
- whimsicality derivation
- whimsy derivation
- whim derivation
- arbitrary similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | capriciousness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | freakishness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | unpredictable |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | impulsiveness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | whimsicality |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | whimsy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | whim |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | arbitrary |