whimsical

Meaning of whimsical

adjective
  1. playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.
    a whimsical sense of humour
  2. acting or behaving in a capricious manner.
    the whimsical arbitrariness of autocracy

Information about whimsical

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of whimsical

whim-si-cal

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • whimsical is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

whimsical synonyms

Meaning capricious:

capricious, impulsive

Meaning existing only in the imagination:

fanciful

Meaning fond of games and amusement; light-hearted:

playful

Meaning causing or showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way:

mischievous

Meaning humorous in a playful, mischievous, or facetious manner:

waggish

Meaning attractively unusual or old-fashioned:

quaint

Meaning extraordinarily good or attractive:

fantastic

Meaning not habitually or commonly occurring or done:

unusual

Meaning eager to know or learn something:

curious

Meaning curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement:

droll

Meaning (of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange:

eccentric

Meaning having or characterized by peculiar or unexpected traits or aspects:

quirky

Meaning not coinciding with the beat:

offbeat

Meaning relating to idiosyncrasy; peculiar or individual:

idiosyncratic

Meaning not based on or conforming to what is generally done or believed:

unconventional

Meaning looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar:

outlandish

Meaning different to what is normal or expected; strange:

peculiar

Meaning strange; odd:

queer

Meaning very strange or unusual:

bizarre

Meaning suggesting something supernatural; unearthly:

weird

Meaning different to what is usual or expected; strange:

odd

Meaning very unusual, strange, or unexpected:

freakish

Meaning very odd, strange, or eccentric:

freaky

Meaning eccentric or slightly mad:

dotty

Meaning (of a person) liable to display rapid changes of emotion:

volatile

Meaning (of a person) liable to unreasonable changes of mood:

temperamental

Meaning responding too readily to something new or stimulating; easily excited:

excitable

Meaning changing frequently, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections:

fickle

Meaning liable to unpredictable variation:

changeable

Meaning not able to be predicted; changeable:

unpredictable

Meaning not consistent or having a fixed pattern; liable to change:

variable

Meaning not even or regular in pattern or movement; unpredictable:

erratic

Meaning the liquid metal mercury:

quicksilver

Meaning subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind:

mercurial

Meaning liable to change:

mutable

Meaning frequently changing; variable or irregular:

inconstant

Meaning acting at variance with one's own principles or former behaviour:

inconsistent

Meaning likely to give way; not stable:

unstable

Meaning liable to fall or shake; not steady in position:

unsteady

Meaning rising and falling irregularly in number or amount:

fluctuating

Meaning tending or able to change frequently or easily:

protean

Meaning having complex patterns of colours; multicoloured:

kaleidoscopic

Meaning (of a substance) able to flow easily:

fluid

Meaning moving in a quivering way; flickering:

wavering

Meaning wavering between different opinions or actions; irresolute:

vacillating

Meaning difficult to control or predict because of wilful or perverse behaviour:

wayward

Meaning liable to change; easily altered:

labile

Translation of whimsical

Words that rhyme with whimsical

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