Synonyms for capricious
kəˈprɪʃ əs, -ˈpri ʃəscapri·cious

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1. capriciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   arbitrary, whimsical

   Antonyms:
   rigorous, conscientious

2. capriciousadjective

   Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim

   Synonyms:
   whimsical, arbitrary

   Antonyms:
   conscientious, rigorous

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1. capricious

   Synonyms:
   faithless, false, fickle, unfaithful, untrue, untrustworthy, wavering

   Antonyms:
   devoted, faithful, firm, incorruptible, loyal, stanch, sure, true, trustworthy, trusty, unwavering

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1. capricious

   Synonyms:
   wayward, uncertain, fanciful, freakish, fitful, fickle, changeful, whimsical, humorsome, inconstant, crotchety

   Antonyms:
   firm, unchanging, inflexible, decided, unswerving, constant

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. capricious, freakishadjective

   changeable

   "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"

   Synonyms:
   flakey, eccentric, whimsical, gonzo, outlandish, freakish, outre, off-the-wall, impulsive, bizarre, freaky, flaky

   Antonyms:
   unarbitrary, predictable, nonarbitrary

2. capricious, impulsive, whimsicaladjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   brainish, tearaway(a), whimsical, impetuous, unprompted, freakish, driving, impulsive, madcap, hotheaded

   Antonyms:
   predictable, unarbitrary, nonarbitrary

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1. capriciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   whimsical, fanciful, fantastical, crotchety, humorsome, wayward, odd, queer, fitful, freakish, very changeable

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1. capriciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   fanciful, whimsical, vagarious, inconstant, fickle, crotchety, volatile

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1. List of paraphrases for "capricious":

   temperamental, arbitrary, skittish, whimsical, wayward, fanciful, spoilt

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How to use capricious in a sentence?

1. John Adams:

   [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

2. Sergio Rodriguez:

   The lava on its path to the sea has been a bit capricious and has diverted from its course.

3. Helen Prejean:

   It is random, arbitrary and capricious and disproportionately meted out to minorities and poor people, race plays such a huge role.

4. The GAP:

   The Government Accountability Project is deeply concerned about the mistreatment of Matthew Lee for two reasons. First, Matthew Lee for two reasons has covered U.N. whistleblower cases accurately and in detail, and we regard the mistreatment of Matthew Lee for two reasons as retaliatory, secondly, Matthew Lee for two reasons exclusion from the UN premises because of capricious, unannounced and unknown decisions of senior managers bodes ill for the treatment of journalists in U.N. Member States.

5. Lu Kang:

   Negotiations and consultations, to have meaning, must be sincere, first, there must be mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit. Second, one's word must be kept, and not be capricious.