Synonyms for whim
ʰwɪm, wɪmwhim

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1. whimnoun

   Synonyms:
   on a lark, lark

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1. whim

   An intellectual fancy is a mental image or picture founded upon slight or whimsical association or resemblance; a conceit has less of the picturesque and more of the theoretic than a fancy; a conceit is somewhat aside from the common laws of reasoning, as a fancy is lighter and more airy than the common mode of thought. A conceit or fancy may be wholly unfounded, while a conception always has, or is believed to have, some answering reality. (Compare REASON.) An intellectual fancy or conceit may be pleasing or amusing, but is never worth serious discussion; we speak of a mere fancy, a droll or odd conceit. An emotional or personal fancy is a capricious liking formed with slight reason and no exercise of judgment, and liable to fade as lightly as it was formed. In a broader sense, the fancy signifies the faculty by which fancies or mental images are formed, associated, or combined. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.

   Synonyms:
   belief, caprice, conceit, conception, desire, fancy, humor, idea, image, imagination, inclination, liking, mood, predilection, supposition, vagary

   Antonyms:
   actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

   Preposition:
   To have a fancy for or take a fancy to a person or thing.

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1. caprice, impulse, whimnoun

   a sudden desire

   "he bought it on an impulse"

   Synonyms:
   pulsing, nerve impulse, nervous impulse, impetus, momentum, urge, impulsion, caprice, pulse, notion, neural impulse, whimsey, impulse, pulsation, whimsy

2. notion, whim, whimsy, whimseynoun

   an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

   "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

   Synonyms:
   whimsicality, whimsy, impression, feeling, notion, flightiness, opinion, caprice, whimsey, capriciousness, belief, impulse, arbitrariness

Matched Categories

1. • Desire
   • Idea

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1. whimnoun

   Synonyms:
   freak, fancy, vagary, humor, caprice, crotchet, maggot, quirk, whimsey, kink, WRINKLE

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1. whimnoun

   Synonyms:
   vagary, caprice, fancy, crotchet, freak, humor, maggot, notion, quirk

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1. List of paraphrases for "whim":

   caprice, quirk, infatuation, drivel, impulse, fad, fancy, mania

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1. Wayne Rogers:

   It said that, in the eyes of the studio, if you behaved in an immoral fashion, they have the right to suspend you. Well, nobody defined an 'immoral fashion,' as it were - so it was at the whim of whoever ran the studio.

2. Heywood:

   Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

3. Committee Chairman David Cicilline:

   Companies... both large and small, have found themselves dependent on the arbitrary whim of these platform giants, one algorithm tweak away from ruin, because their decisions are largely unaccountable, opaque, and result in sweeping consequences, the dominant platforms effectively serve as private regulators.

4. Bill Watterson:

   Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin

5. Ted Kennedy:

   Robert Bork America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids and school children could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censured at the whim of government.