slovo | definícia |
capricious (encz) | capricious,kapriciózní adj: Jiří Drbálek |
capricious (encz) | capricious,rozmarný adj: |
capricious (encz) | capricious,vrtošivý adj: Jiří Šmoldas |
Capricious (gcide) | Capricious \Ca*pri"cious\ (k[.a]*pr[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [Cf. F.
capricieux, It. capriccioso.]
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly;
freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." --Shak.
"Capricious humor." --Hugh Miller.
[1913 Webster]
A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.
--Hallam.
Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety;
fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain;
inconstant; arbitrary. -- Ca*pri"cious*ly, adv. --
Ca*pri"cious*ness, n.
[1913 Webster] |
capricious (wn) | capricious
adj 1: changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish
weather" [syn: capricious, freakish]
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: capricious, impulsive, whimsical] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
capriciously (encz) | capriciously,rozmarně adv: Jiří Šmoldas |
capriciousness (encz) | capriciousness,rozmarnost n: |
Capricious (gcide) | Capricious \Ca*pri"cious\ (k[.a]*pr[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [Cf. F.
capricieux, It. capriccioso.]
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly;
freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." --Shak.
"Capricious humor." --Hugh Miller.
[1913 Webster]
A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.
--Hallam.
Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety;
fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain;
inconstant; arbitrary. -- Ca*pri"cious*ly, adv. --
Ca*pri"cious*ness, n.
[1913 Webster] |
Capriciously (gcide) | Capricious \Ca*pri"cious\ (k[.a]*pr[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [Cf. F.
capricieux, It. capriccioso.]
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly;
freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." --Shak.
"Capricious humor." --Hugh Miller.
[1913 Webster]
A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.
--Hallam.
Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety;
fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain;
inconstant; arbitrary. -- Ca*pri"cious*ly, adv. --
Ca*pri"cious*ness, n.
[1913 Webster] |
Capriciousness (gcide) | Capricious \Ca*pri"cious\ (k[.a]*pr[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [Cf. F.
capricieux, It. capriccioso.]
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly;
freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." --Shak.
"Capricious humor." --Hugh Miller.
[1913 Webster]
A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.
--Hallam.
Syn: Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety;
fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain;
inconstant; arbitrary. -- Ca*pri"cious*ly, adv. --
Ca*pri"cious*ness, n.
[1913 Webster] |
capriciously (wn) | capriciously
adv 1: unpredictably; "the weather has been freakishly variable"
[syn: capriciously, freakishly]
2: in a capricious manner; "there were Turk's head lilies and
patches of iris , islands of brilliant blue set capriciously
in the green sea" |
capriciousness (wn) | capriciousness
n 1: the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable
impulses [syn: capriciousness, unpredictability]
2: the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or
caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the
flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" [syn:
flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy,
whimsey, capriciousness] |
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