Capricious Definition & Meaning

capricious
adjective
  1. changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"
  2. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

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