Whimsy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An odd or fanciful idea; a whim.
  • n. A quaint or fanciful quality: stories full of whimsy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A quaint and fanciful idea. A whim. Playfully odd behaviour.
  • n. An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
  • n. A whim.
  • v. To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A whimsey.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion.
  • n. Same as whim, 3; also, a small warehousecrane for lifting goods to the upper stories.
  • n. See the quotation.
  • Full of whims or fancies; whimsical; changeable.
  • To fill with whimsies.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
  • n. an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    whimsier    whimsiest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    whimsey   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    firehose    whimsey    mock-tudor    naivety    surrealism