Definitions for vagaries

vagaries va·gar·y

Spelling: [vuh-gair-ee, vey-guh-ree]
IPA: /vəˈgɛər i, ˈveɪ gə ri/

Vagaries is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in vagaries (aaegirsv).

Definitions for vagaries

noun

  1. an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance:
  2. a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action.

Origin of vagaries

1565-75, in sense “wandering journey”; apparently Latin vagārī to wander

Examples for vagaries

The vagaries of the human mind are beyond our understanding.

Pussy sat at the window watching my vagaries with astonishment.

Silvey smiled, as does an adult listening to the vagaries of a child.

It is too depressing, these vagaries, these senile ramblings of a superannuated musician.

Let us talk a little about Susannah, and all these vagaries will be dispersed.

The power to hold in check the vagaries of imagination may be gone.

It has no thought of time and it accepts all the vagaries of your laziness.

What the record really shows is just how much the fate of the Presidency is governed by the vagaries of chance.

After all, radically purist ideologies need to be sheltered from the vagaries of the world, and they can be expensive to maintain.

The vagaries of the mountain atmosphere rarely concerned him.

Word Value for vagaries
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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