Synonyms for whim
ʰwɪm, wɪmwhim

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1. whimnoun

   Synonyms:
   on a lark, lark

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 4 votes

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.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

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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How to use whim in a sentence?

1. Jonathan Zachreson:

   Nonetheless, she's still taking the trip to Mexico, but isn't coming back to teach in person, i'm so baffled that a teacher is able to just cancel synchronous learning at their own whim and not notify staff or not find a substitute to replace.

2. James Reston, New York Times, June 12 1968:

   This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

3. Stacey Abrams:

   I know that my résumé... is usually reduced to' She didn't become the governor of Georgia.' But it is important to understand all the things I did to prepare for that contest, that campaign was not a whim. It was the outcome of decades of deliberate work building my capacity to serve as many people as I could, in the most effective way possible.

4. Ryun King:

   You're pretty much at the whim of whoever is going to be able to cover that for you, ff you feel brave enough to even enter the establishment to say, 'yes, this was me, no, this isn't who I am,'.

5. Supreme Court in Manhattan:

   Mr. Trump ran the Foundation according to his whim, rather than the law.