MEANING
Changing choices or behavior unpredictably according to passing impulses.
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- capricious patron
- capricious decision
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The capricious patron praised the portrait, then ordered it burned.
No one could plan around his capricious decisions.
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- capricious
Usage notes
Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Comparative more capricious; superlative most capricious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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