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    ca·pri·cious
    /kəˈpriSHəs/

    adjective

    • 1. given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior: "it's terrible to feel our livelihood hinges on a capricious boss"

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  2. Capricious definition: subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic. See examples of CAPRICIOUS used in a sentence.

  3. adj. 1. subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic; mercurial. 2. Obs. fanciful or witty. [1585–95; < Italian capriccioso; see capriccio, -ous] ca•pri′cious•ly, adv. ca•pri′cious•ness, n. syn: See fickle.

  4. A capricious and malevolent spirit, thing of shadows. • Employees need legal protection against capricious and unfair actions by their employers . • His love was capricious , brazenly conditional and in permanently short supply.

  5. Definitions. Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain; inconstant ...

  6. a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one's mind or the weather. Synonyms: fancy, whim, notion, vagary. a tendency to change one's mind without apparent or adequate motive; whimsicality; capriciousness: With the caprice of a despotic king, he alternated between kindness and cruelty. Music. capriccio ( def 1 ). caprice. / kəˈpriːs / noun.

  7. Capricious - determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; a capricious refusal; of ...

  8. Capriciousness Definition. Meanings. Synonyms. Definition Source. Noun. Filter. noun. The quality of being capricious. Wiktionary.

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  10. 3 days ago · The lack of domestic constraints on and the generally capricious nature of such regimes add to their difficulty to trust one another. 105 Regardless of what its leadership says, for example, Russia is unlikely to take a reckless swipe at the Baltic states simply to favor China, unless it judges the political, military, and economic context in Europe to also be very favorable.

  11. This examination of “American gods” argues that mythology is the bedrock for creative and poetic expression in literature that explores and comments on the universality of contemporary human concerns in a world where the spiritual link with the gods has largely been severed and belief systems have mostly lost their meaning.