capricious

capricious is a 10-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.
2. adjective. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

   "a capricious refusal"

   "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"

   Synonyms: impulsive, whimsical

3. adjective. changeable

   "a capricious summer breeze"

   "freakish weather"

   Synonyms: freakish

Synonyms

impulsive, whimsical, freakish

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in capricious:

auriscopic

Common word forms

capriciously, capriciousness

Words from these letters

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