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Whimsey

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See whimsy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To fill with whimseys, or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
  • noun. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.
  • noun. A whim.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Alternative spelling of whimsy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
  • noun. an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
  • Word Usage
    "As I looked, I saw the singular apparition of a moving "whimsey" at the top of Brierley Hill, dark and black against the shining surface."
    Equivalent
    whimsy  
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    craze  freak  whim