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单词 whimsical
释义
whimsical
adjective
uk
/ˈwɪm.zɪ.kəl/us
/ˈwɪm.zɪ.kəl/
unusualandstrangein a way that might befunnyorannoying:
离奇的；古怪的；异想天开的
a whimsicaltale离奇的故事
Despite hiskindly, sometimes whimsicalair, he was ashrewdobserverofpeople.尽管他为人和善，有时也有些古怪，但对人的观察很是敏锐。
Synonyms
capriciousliterary
impulsive
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
  • aberrant
  • abnormal
  • abnormally
  • add
  • Alice-in-Wonderland
  • freakishness
  • funnily
  • funnily enoughidiom
  • ghostliness
  • ghoul
  • perverse
  • perversely
  • perversity
  • perverted
  • pervy
  • unorthodox
  • wack
  • wackadoodle
  • wackiness
  • wacky
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whimsically
whimsicality
(Definition ofwhimsicalfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

whimsical| American Dictionary

whimsical
adjective
us
/ˈhwɪm·zɪ·kəl,ˈwɪm-/
unusualand usingimagination:
Thesongshave a whimsicalcharm.
Whimsical alsodescribesactionsthatchangesuddenlyand for noobviousreason:
Unfortunately, hisdecisionsare often whimsical.
(Definition ofwhimsicalfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwhimsical

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Writers have characterised some relationships as arbitrary,whimsical, awkward or confusing, yet celebrated the carefully studied asymmetry of others as an artistic tour-de-force.
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The critical point to be stressed is that all these qualities are neither arbitrary norwhimsical.
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Where the old anthropologists had expected an orderly procession upward to man's highest type, he found awhimsicalrabble.
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But we cannot divorce the principle of nonmaleficence from evidential requirements without legitimating the mostwhimsicaldecisions imaginable.
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There are many clever ones, though: cute, thoughfful, creative, ingenious,whimsical, stunningly inventive.
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In a discipline that celebrates bluntness, practicality and monomania, he was cursed with awhimsicalimagination.
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Frivolous,whimsicalchoices may harm people directly and indirectly by weakening common values that secure them with a sense of togetherness, essential for human well-being.
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It is a paradox of this book that all its poetic evocations and itswhimsicalstyle are employed to describe its author's inarticulateness.
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His 'introduction' is a swirling kaleidoscope of bright and glaring sound soon stalled by thatwhimsicalcontrabass clarinet - supported by equallywhimsicalpercussion.
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Forgiving drunkards therefore was not awhimsicaljudicial practice that reflected the gap between legal texts and reality.
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Consider the property of having awhimsicalsense of humour.
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Awhimsicalhypothetical dialogue between the spirits of science and law, written by a legal scholar, exemplifies these distinctions.
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Suggestions ranging from the practical to thewhimsicalillustrate some possibilities for injecting the essence of these experiences into a more technological world, thereby enriching it.
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Universal themes are ultimately present, but they are treated one at a time, inwhimsicalmorsels.
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Thus redecorating becomes not awhimsicalproject, not an end in itself, but a means to an end, for a middle-class woman's identity depends upon her maintaining a proper drawing-room.
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