whimsy

whimsy is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.
2. noun. A whim.
3. noun. A whimsey.
4. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality

5. noun. an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

   "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"

   "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"

   Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsey

Synonyms

arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, notion, whim

Common word forms

whimsied, whimsies

Words from these letters

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