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WHIMSICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
Example:
the victim of whimsical persecutions
Synonyms:
capricious; impulsive; whimsical
Classified under:
Similar:
arbitrary (based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice)
Derivation:
whimsicality; whimsy (the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment)
whimsy (an odd or fanciful or capricious idea)
Context examples:
“I ought to be ashamed of myself,” she said. Then added, with the whimsical smile I adored, “but I am only one, small woman.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
As she rose to go she turned to me with the whimsical way she had, and said: Something is going to happen—is happening, for that matter. I feel it. Something is coming here, to us. It is coming now. I don’t know what, but it is coming.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
