fanciful+capricious

  • 41Caprice — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Caprice >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 caprice caprice fancy humor Sgm: N 1 whim whim whimsey whimwham Sgm: N 1 crotchet crotchet capriccio quirk freak maggot …

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  • 42changeable — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of persons ] Syn. inconstant, unstable, fickle, irresolute, flighty, irresponsible, unreliable, purposeless, wayward, unsettled, motiveless, uncertain, spasmodic, fanciful, impulsive, wavering, uneasy, unsteady,… …

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  • 43fantastical — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Appealing to fancy: fanciful, fancy, fantastic, imaginative, whimsical. See PLAIN. 2. Existing only in the imagination: chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, imaginary, notional, unreal,… …

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  • 44literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 45painting, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present.       Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment (but see also drawing for discussion of depictions in …

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  • 46Piano music of Gabriel Fauré — Fauré in 1907 The French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) wrote in many genres, including songs, chamber music, orchestral pieces and choral works.[1] Among his best known compositions are those for piano, written between the 1860s and the… …

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  • 47variable — I adjective aberrant, alterable, capricious, changeable, changeful, erratic, faithless, fanciful, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, fluctuating, inconstant, irregular, irresponsible, mercurial, modifiable, oscillating, protean, shifting, spasmodic …

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  • 48wanton — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lewd, licentious, loose, dissolute, immoral; frolicsome, abandoned, capricious, willful; wild; heartless, malicious; heedless, reckless, wayward, perverse; luxuriant, rampant, exuberant. See… …

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  • 49whim — /wɪm / (say wim) noun 1. an odd or fanciful notion; a freakish or capricious fancy or desire. 2. capricious humour: to be swayed by whim. 3. Mining a large capstan or vertical drum turned by horsepower for raising coal, water, etc., from a mine.… …

  • 50whimsey — noun 1. the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory • Syn: ↑flightiness, ↑arbitrariness, ↑whimsicality, ↑whimsy, ↑capriciousness •… …

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