About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- caprice
POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

caprice

 : 
Noun
 : 
ca=price

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun caprice has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

capricen. [F. caprice, It. capriccio, caprice (perh. orig. a fantastical goat leap), fr. L. caper, capra, goat. Cf Capriole, Cab, Caper, v. i.].
  •  An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.  W. Irving.  [1913 Webster]
  •  See Capriccio.
Syn. -- Freak; whim; crotchet; fancy; vagary; humor; whimsey; fickleness.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

caprice, n.
1 a an unaccountable or whimsical change of mind or conduct. b a tendency to this.
2 a work of lively fancy in painting, drawing, or music; a capriccio.

Etymology
F f. It. CAPRICCIO

THESAURUS

caprice

arbitrariness, bee, boutade, capriccio, capriciousness, carelessness, characteristic, conceit, contrariety, crank, crankiness, crotchet, crotchetiness, divertissement, fancifulness, fancy, fantasia, fantasticality, foible, freak, freakishness, habit, heedlessness, humor, humoresque, humorsomeness, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, inconsistency, maggot, mannerism, medley, megrim, mood, moodiness, motivelessness, notion, peculiarity, perversity, petulance, potpourri, quirkiness, romance, romanza, temper, temperamentalness, thoughtlessness, trait, trick, unthoughtfulness, vagary, vein, whim, whimsicality, whimsicalness, whimsy

ROGET THESAURUS

caprice

Irresolution

N irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision, indetermination, undetermination, unsettlement, uncertainty, demur, suspense, hesitating, hesitation, hesitancy, vacillation, changeableness, fluctuation, alternation, caprice, fickleness, levity, legerete, pliancy, weakness, timidity, cowardice, half measures, waverer, ass between two bundles of hay, shuttlecock, butterfly, wimp, doughface, irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted, undecided, unresolved, undetermined, shilly-shally, fidgety, tremulous, hesitating, off one's balance, at a loss, vacillating, unsteady, unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast, capricious, volatile, frothy, light, lightsome, light-minded, giddy, fast and loose, weak, feeble-minded, frail, timid, wimpish, wimpy, cowardly, dough-faced, facile, pliant, unable to say 'no', easy-going revocable, reversible, irresolutely, irresolved, irresolvedly, in faltering accents, off and on, from pillar to post, seesaw, Int, how happy could I be with either!.

Caprice

N caprice, fancy, humor, whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham, crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase, capriciousness, kink, capricious, erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical, full of whims, maggoty, inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward, contrary, captious, arbitrary, unconformable, penny wise and pound foolish, fickle, frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile, by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason, nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi, the deuce is in him.

Absence of Motive

N absence of motive, aimlessness, caprice, chance, without rhyme or reason, aimless, capricious, whimsical, out of mere caprice.

See related words and definitions of word "caprice" in Indonesian
copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion