Definitions for whim

whim whim

Spelling: [hwim, wim]
IPA: /ʰwɪm, wɪm/

Whim is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in whim (himw).

Definitions for whim

noun

  1. an odd or capricious notion or desire; a sudden or freakish fancy:
  2. capricious humor:

Origin of whim

First recorded in 1635-45; short for whim-wham

Examples for whim

Was it really, as I suspected, ordered on a whim by some yahoo who was deeply affected by a childhood encounter with Grave Digger?

It suited his whim, and it did more than that: it gave him a chance to speak to her in his teasing way.

The whim had seized her and was holding on tight that Emmeline's might be the Right Place.

He's been satisfying every whim of curiosity that pops into his mind.

Indeed, Van Baerle's happiness depended on the whim of this man.

That was 2010, when Williamson was seven, less than two years after painting his first picture on a whim.

These demands can increase at whim, and worsen with the birth of a child.

And neither he, nor his secret police squad or some lawyer from Detroit, get to change that unilaterally on a whim.

It seemed to have a vast inorganic life of its own, a volition and a whim.

She was distraught and sad walking through a park on Long Island when she joined a drum circle on a whim.

Word Value for whim
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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