Definitions for capricious

capricious ca·pri·cious

Spelling: [kuh-prish-uh s, -pree-sh Capricious is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 465 anagrams from letters in capricious (acciioprsu).

Definitions for capricious

adjective

  1. subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic:
  2. Obsolete. fanciful or witty.

Origin of capricious

1585-95; Italian capriccioso capriccioso

Examples for capricious

The list is as capricious—its bounds known only to its mysterious conceivers—as it is precise.

The capricious and inhumane imprisoning of the feminist activists from Pussy Riot.

Art is not dignified by being called whimsical--or capricious.

All is still on a colossal scale, but playful, capricious, phantasmagoric.

He plays Wallace, a twentysomething medical school dropout who falls for Chantry (Zoe Kazan), a capricious animator/artist.

The rouge-et-noir player imagines that chance is not capricious.

We remain constantly curious about what great designers will turn out from their capricious artistic alchemy.

Your duty to your capricious brother, not to your father, you mean, Madam.

How noisy and romping the brook was; how capricious, how playful, how furtive!

Beholden to a base that, like a capricious autocrat, will turn against them at the slightest provocation.

Word Value for capricious
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16

Words with friends

20

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