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Adjective
/kəˈpriSHəs/,/-ˈprē-/,
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Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior,
  1. Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior
    • - a capricious and often brutal administration
    • - a capricious climate
  1. changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"
  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"
  3. (capriciously) unpredictably; "the weather has been freakishly variable"
  4. (capriciously) in a capricious manner; "there were Turk's head lilies and patches of iris , islands of brilliant blue set capriciously in the green sea"
  5. (capriciousness) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses
  6. (capriciousness) flightiness: the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory"
  7. *For the card game, see: Capricieuse
  8. Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim
  9. (Capriciousness) noun, one who does things at the spur of the moment and unpredictably.
  10. To be governed by caprice [from the Latin for "hedgehog's head"; think of spiky-haired idlers like Einstein and Sid Vicious] is to give in to one's every fantastic whim, irresponsible vagary, or irrational desire. ...
  11. (adj.) subject to whim, fickle (The young girl’s capricious tendencies made it difficult for her to focus on achieving her goals.)
  12. In an ombudsman investigation, "capricious" means that the agency acted at the whim or pleasure of an agency official or employee without regard to any law or controlling principle.
  13. (adj) acting impulsively and whimsically (without care)
  14. ca·pri·cious (ke-prîshąes, -pręąshes) adjective Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable. . ca·priącious·ly adverb. ca·priącious·ness noun
  15. (kə-prĭsh′əs or kə-prē′shəs) adj.
  16. (v) qılıq etеrgе, qılıqsızlanırģa
  17. adv., adj. unpredictable and subject to whim, often used to refer to judges and judicial decisions which do not follow the law, logic or proper trial procedure. A semi-polite way of saying a judge is inconsistent or erratic.