capricious (adj.)

  1. changeable; a capricious summer breeze; freakish weather

    [ Syn: freakish ]

  2. 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

    [ Syn: impulsive , whimsical ]

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