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capricious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of capricious

1 likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly

capricious weather that was balmy one day and freezing cold the next

Synonyms of capricious

changeable, changeful, fickle, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, skittish, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile

Words Related to capricious

aimless, arbitrary, desultory, erratic, haphazard, hit-or-miss, irregular, random, scattered, slapdash, stray

ambivalent, hesitating, shaky, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, vacillating, wavering

dicey, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthy

adaptable, mobile, protean, versatile

Phrases Synonymous with capricious

Near Antonyms of capricious

equable, even, uniform

abiding, durable, lasting, permanent, persistent

dependable, reliable, sure, tried, tried-and-true, true, trustworthy, trusty

Antonyms of capricious

certain, changeless, constant, immutable, invariable, predictable, settled, stable, stationary, steady, unchangeable, unchanging, unvarying

2 prone to sudden illogical changes of mind, ideas, or actions

a capricious woman who changed her mind dozens of times about what color to paint the bathroom

Synonyms of capricious

freakish, impulsive, whimsical

Words Related to capricious

impetuous, mercurial, moody, temperamental, volatile

crankish, eccentric, flaky, quirky

arbitrary, erratic, fickle, inconstant, irregular, shaky, willful (or wilful)

impractical, quixotic, quixotical, romantic, unrealistic, utopian, visionary

Near Antonyms of capricious

down-to-earth, earthy, hard-boiled, hardheaded, levelheaded, matter-of-fact, practical, pragmatic (also pragmatical), reasonable, sensible, tough-minded

commonsensical, grounded, logical, no-nonsense, rational, sane, sober, sobersided, sound

fast, fixed, hard-and-fast, immutable, inflexible, invariable, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding

changeless, constant, established, set, settled, stable, steadfast, steady, unchanging, unvarying

Synonym Discussion of capricious

inconstant, fickle, capricious, mercurial, unstable mean lacking firmness or steadiness (as in purpose or devotion). inconstant implies an incapacity for steadiness and an inherent tendency to change.

- an inconstant friend

fickle suggests unreliability because of perverse changeability and incapacity for steadfastness.

- performers discover how fickle fans can be

capricious suggests motivation by sudden whim or fancy and stresses unpredictability.

- an utterly capricious critic

mercurial implies a rapid changeability in mood.

- made anxious by her boss's mercurial temperament

unstable implies an incapacity for remaining in a fixed position or steady course and applies especially to a lack of emotional balance.

- too unstable to hold a job

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