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capriciousadjective likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedlycapricious weather that was balmy one day and freezing cold the next changeable, changeful, fickle, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, skittish, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile aimless, arbitrary, desultory, erratic, haphazard, hit-or-miss, irregular, random, scattered, slapdash, strayambivalent, hesitating, shaky, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, vacillating, waveringdicey, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthyadaptable, mobile, protean, versatile up in the air certain, changeless, constant, immutable, invariable, predictable, settled, stable, stationary, steady, unchangeable, unchanging, unvarying equable, even, uniformabiding, durable, lasting, permanent, persistentdependable, reliable, sure, tried, tried-and-true, true, trustworthy, trusty prone to sudden illogical changes of mind, ideas, or actionsa capricious woman who changed her mind dozens of times about what color to paint the bathroom freakish, impulsive, whimsical impetuous, mercurial, moody, temperamental, volatilecrankish, eccentric, flaky, quirkyarbitrary, erratic, fickle, inconstant, irregular, shaky, willful(or wilful)impractical, quixotic, quixotical, romantic, unrealistic, utopian, visionary equabledown-to-earth, earthy, hard-boiled, hardheaded, levelheaded, matter-of-fact, practical, pragmatic(also pragmatical), reasonable, sensible, tough-mindedcommonsensical, grounded, logical, no-nonsense, rational, sane, sober, sobersided, soundfast, fixed, hard-and-fast, immutable, inflexible, invariable, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyieldingchangeless, constant, established, set, settled, stable, steadfast, steady, unchanging, unvarying inconstant, fickle, capricious, mercurial, unstable mean lacking firmness or steadiness (as in purpose or devotion).inconstant implies an incapacity for steadiness and an inherent tendency to change.an inconstant friend fickle suggests unreliability because of perverse changeability and incapacity for steadfastness.performers discover how fickle fans can be capricious suggests motivation by sudden whim or fancy and stresses unpredictability.an utterly capricious critic mercurial implies a rapid changeability in mood.made anxious by her boss's mercurial temperament unstable implies an incapacity for remaining in a fixed position or steady course and applies especially to a lack of emotional balance.too unstable to hold a job in 1601 |