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whimsical 音标拼音: [w'ɪmzɪkəl] [hw'ɪmzɪkəl] a. 心情浮动的,反复无常的,古怪的,异想天开的 心情浮动的,反复无常的,古怪的,异想天开的 whimsical adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { capricious}, { impulsive}, { whimsical}] Whimsical \ Whim" si* cal\, a. [ From { Whimsey}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. " A whimsical insult." -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] My neighbors call me whimsical. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic. " A whimsical chair." -- Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Quaint; capricious; fanciful; fantastic. [ 1913 Webster] 198 Moby Thesaurus words for " whimsical": Attic, Gothic, abnormal, absurd, adrift, afloat, agnostic, alternating, ambiguous, amorphous, amusing, anomalous, arbitrary, baroque, biting, bizarre, brain- born, brilliant, capricious, chancy, changeable, changeful, clever, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviative, dicey, different, divergent, dizzy, dotty, doubting, dream- built, droll, eccentric, equivocal, erratic, exceptional, extravagant, facetious, fanciful, fancy- born, fancy- built, fancy- woven, fantasied, fantasque, fantastic, fast and loose, fey, fickle, fitful, flaky, flickering, flighty, flitting, florid, fluctuant, fluctuating, freakish, funny, giddy, grotesque, harebrained, hesitant, hesitating, hilarious, humorous, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, iffy, impetuous, impulsive, incalculable, incongruous, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indemonstrable, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen- witted, kinky, kooky, laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, mazy, mercurial, moody, mordant, motiveless, nimble- witted, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, outlandish, peculiar, petulant, pointed, polysemous, preposterous, priceless, pungent, quaint, queer, quick- witted, quirky, quizzical, rambling, rapier- like, restless, rich, ridiculous, risible, rococo, roving, salt, salty, scatterbrained, scintillating, screaming, screwball, screwy, shapeless, sharp, shifting, shifty, shuffling, singular, skeptical, smart, sparkling, spasmodic, spineless, sprightly, strange, temperamental, touch- and- go, twisted, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconventional, unconvinced, undependable, undisciplined, undivinable, unfixed, unforeseeable, unnatural, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure, unverifiable, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wacky, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, wild, wishy- washy, witty
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