Synonyms of whims

whims

noun

plural of whim

as in notions

a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action

on a whim, we stopped at the roadside stand to get ice cream

Synonyms & Similar Words

• notions
• caprices
• vagaries
• fantasies
• whimsies
• thoughts
• fancies
• pictures
• impressions
• bees
• humors
• megrims
• vagrancies
• maggots
• kinks
• images
• bees in one's bonnet
• cranks
• freaks
• whimsicalities
• conceptions
• concepts
• conceits
• inspirations
• impetuosities
• brainstorms
• mind's eyes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of whims

Controlling manufacturing in-house is also a plus so the enterprise is not at the whims of third parties when trying to flip inventory each season. — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 21 July 2026

While the horrors Lestat faced are more tempered by time and his own pacing, Louis’ are immediate and based on Armand’s whims in the butcher shop. — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Interest—from both visitors and islanders—is gently shifting away from polishing playboy yachts or appeasing the decadent whims of retirees, to something, well, more real. — Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026

By their very nature, pop-ups are fluid and subject to the whims of weather. — Sam Flemming, AJC.com, 15 July 2026

Homer depicts a strange and troubling world, in which human existence is continuously subject to the deliberations and whims of deities who have motives of their own. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 July 2026

This is about taking one of the final wholesome places left for families — the Pickles are holding a Fart Night this Friday night — and turning it into a LIB stunt factory where kids are subjected to the Alphabet Mafia's whims. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026

From secret abilities to holes in the fabric of reality to the whims of the universe, there is no limit to the ways our favorite characters can jump between past and present and future. — Amy Tordoff, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026

On the other hand, biodiversity is far too important an issue to be steered at once by the chaotic whims of Silicon Valley, the legal battles waged by environmental nonprofits, and the old, sclerotic levers of government bureaucracy. — Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 2026