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Whim synonyms and antonyms

wĭm, hwĭm

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impulse (related)
An electrical signal traveling along the axon of a neuron. Nerve impulses excite or inhibit activity in other neurons or in the tissues of the body, such as muscles and glands.
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mood
Mood is a feeling.
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captious
Fond of catching others in mistakes; quick to find fault; quibbling; carping
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whimsicality
The quality of being whimsical
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whimsy
An unusual, unexpected, or fanciful idea; a whim.
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quiddity
An eccentricity; an odd feature.
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notion
A vague thought
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vagary
Vagary is an odd, unexpected action.
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desire
(Uncountable) The feeling of desire.
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megrims
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oddity
The state or quality of being odd; queerness; peculiarity; strangeness
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peculiarity
The quality or condition of being peculiar
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puckishness
An instance of being puckish
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singularity
A point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value
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thought
The definition of thought is the act of thinking, or the outcome of mental activity.
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trifle
Anything that is of little importance or worth.
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vision
Vision is eyesight, something that is or has been seen or something imagined.
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plan (antonym)
A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit:
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boutade
(Obsolete) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
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conceit
(--- Archaic) Estimation or opinion of something, especially when favorable.
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fancy
A romantic liking or interest:
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humor
Aqueous humor.
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megrim
A type of European deep water flatfish, Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis; the whiff or sail-fluke.
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thoughts (related)
Plural form of thought
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whimsey
Alternative spelling of whimsy.
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caprice
A sudden, unpredictable action or change:
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quirk
An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone
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bee
A gathering for a specific purpose, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
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bee-in-one-s-bonnet
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capricious
Subject to caprices; tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason; erratic; flighty
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crotchety
Capriciously stubborn or eccentric; perverse.
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fanciful
Full of fancy; indulging in fancies; imaginative in a playful way; whimsical
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fantastic
Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
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impish
Of or befitting an imp; mischievous.
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notional
Having visionary ideas; given to whims; fanciful
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peculiar
Particular; unique; special
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roguish
Deceitful; unprincipled:
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vagarious
Tending to wander or roam
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bizarrerie
A bizarre quality
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chimera
(Greek mythology) One of the many fantastical offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a multi-headed monster represented as vomiting flames. It had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and a dragon for a tail. Killed by the hero Bellerophon in Lycea.
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crotchet
An odd, whimsical, or stubborn notion.
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eccentricity
An eccentric trait or habit; peculiarity
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fantasque
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fantasy
Imagination or fancy; esp., wild, visionary fancy
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freak
(Of a person) A nonconformist, especially in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (i.e., "circus freak"); unique, sometimes in a displeasing way.
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idea
A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression. [from 17th c.]
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idiosyncrasy
An individual reaction to a drug, food, etc. that is different from the reaction of most people
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inclination
A particular disposition or bent of mind; bias; tendency
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maggot
A term of insult for a 'worthless' person, as if a bug.
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behest (related)
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sword-point (related)
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Whim Sentence Examples

  • I'm simply stating that I'm not leaving my destiny to the whim of a man.

  • Naturally white-blonde, she'd dyed it pink on a whim last weekend.

  • This was a digression of a new kind, if anything can be called a digression in a work the plan of which is to fly off at a tangent whenever and wherever the writer's whim tempts him.

  • That was no sudden whim on the writer's part.

  • He was the creature of every passing mood or whim, incapable of cool and steady judgment or of the slightest self-control - an incalculable weathercock, blindly obsequious to every blast of passion.

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