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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. changeable;
- Example: "a capricious summer breeze"
- Example: "freakish weather"
[syn: capricious, freakish]

2. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason;
- Example: "a capricious refusal"
- Example: "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"
- Example: "the victim of whimsical persecutions"
[syn: capricious, impulsive, whimsical]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]