capricious

Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

ca‧pri‧cious/kəˈprɪʃəs/ adjective
1. likely to change your mind suddenly or behave in an unexpected way:
　 ▪ She was as capricious as her mother had been.

2. literary changing quickly and suddenly:
　 ▪ a capricious wind

—capriciously adverb

adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Employees need legal protection against capricious and unfair actions by their employers.
▪ the capricious tastes of children
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A capricious and malevolent spirit, thing of shadows.
▪ Closer analysis shows that the motif does not appear as a random or capricious feature but follows a pattern.
▪ Eva Peron was vain, she was capricious, she was horribly insecure.
▪ For instance, if environmental changes are capricious, the animal's migration viewed in isolation will also be capricious.
▪ His feet turned capricious, slipping off at odd angles.
▪ His love was capricious, brazenly conditional and in permanently short supply.
▪ Regulation can vary from laissez-faire to the oppressive and capricious.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  impulsive, whimsical, freakish