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capricious
Synonyms and Antonyms of capricious
- capricious weather that was balmy one day and freezing cold the next
up in the air
- a capricious cat who was friendly one minute and standoffish the next
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
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- an inconstant friend
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- performers discover how fickle fans can be
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- an utterly capricious critic
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- made anxious by her boss's mercurial temperament
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- too unstable to hold a job
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