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单词 capricious
释义
capricious
adjective
literary
uk
/kəˈprɪʃ.əs/us
/kəˈprɪʃ.əs/
changingmoodorbehavioursuddenlyandunexpectedly:
反复无常的
a capriciouschild任性的小孩
He was acrueland capricioustyrant.他是个残忍而又反复无常的暴君。
Synonyms
impulsive
whimsical
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
always becoming different
  • changingWe must navigate changing attitudes about women in leadership.
  • changeableBritish weather is notoriously changeable.
  • variedHe has had a rich and varied career.
  • fluidOur travel plans are fluid because of the train strike.
  • dynamicThe Japanese economy is much more dynamic than our own.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Changing frequently
  • capriciously
  • capriciousness
  • changeable
  • dipsy-doodle
  • eddy
  • fickle
  • fluidity
  • inconstant
  • inflammable
  • kaleidoscopic
  • kaleidoscopically
  • mercurial
  • moving target
  • raggedly
  • raggedness
  • schizophrenically
  • shifting
  • skittish
  • yo-yoing
  • zigzag
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Related words

capriciously
capriciousness
(Definition ofcapriciousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

capricious| American Dictionary

capricious
adjective
us
/kəˈprɪʃ·əs,-ˈpri·ʃəs/
likelytochange, orreactingto asuddendesireor newidea:
We have had very capriciousweatherlately.
(Definition ofcapriciousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcapricious

capricious
The ideal of being independent from thecapriciousevents of the world was obviously of great importance to a wide variety of early modern thinkers.
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Typically, when faced with apparentlycapriciousrules, researchers seek ways to express the changes as natural looking processes, given some theoretical model.
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Bankrupting one taxpayer to pay the costs of another could be seen as trulycapricious.
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She too was a temptress who could beguile and terrify, and she was verycapricious.
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This then breaks down into a march, which is more regular (and slightly pompous) and sometimes pitted against thecapriciousmaterial.
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One is thecapriciousnature of the oscillations.
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The popular profile of ballooning as acapriciousand 'unscientific' business has a long history.
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In her new milieu, this child is, in reality, considered to be a captive, subject to thecapriciousdemands of her new environment.
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It is therefore a fragile and potentiallycapriciousrelationship.
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They are representative in showing thecapriciousnature of the oscillations.
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An important implication of this meritocratic view was that leaders must be insulated from thecapriciousand morally corrosive practices of parliamentary politics.
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The resulting arrangement of care-giving may look haphazard orcapricious, but the underlying principle of reciprocity is clear.
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The image of recusant martyrdom was perhaps morecapriciousand conflicting than the author here acknowledges.
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If the origin and evolution of life were an unpredictable oddity, based on quirks of contingency, astrobiology would be fascinating butcapricious.
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Thecapriciouspowers of hereditary monarchs have gone.
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