Associations to the word «Capricious»

Wiktionary

CAPRICIOUS, adjective. Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim

Dictionary definition

CAPRICIOUS, adjective. Changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather".
CAPRICIOUS, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats