CAPRICIOUS Synonyms

• based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice

• proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus

• without forethought

• having the power of driving or impelling

• determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

• characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

• capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature

• such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change

• subject to change

• varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles

• liable to sudden unpredictable change

• having no fixed course

• likely to perform unpredictably

• marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments

• liable to sudden unpredictable change

• likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable

• relating to or containing or caused by mercury

• relating to or under the (astrological) influence of the planet Mercury

• relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury

• liable to sudden unpredictable change

• not capable of being foretold

• unknown in advance

• not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals

• evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures

• a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor

• liable to lead to sudden change or violence

• marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments

• tending to vary often or widely

• changeable

• characteristic of a freak

• conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual