whimsy 音标拼音: [w'ɪmsi] [hw'ɪmsi]
n . 怪念头,心情浮动,反复无常
怪念头,心情浮动,反复无常
whimsy n 1 :
an odd or fanciful or capricious idea ; "
the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories "; "
he had a whimsy about flying to the moon ";
"
whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it "
[
synonym : {
notion }, {
whim }, {
whimsy }, {
whimsey }]
2 :
the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment ; "
I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory " [
synonym :
{
flightiness }, {
arbitrariness }, {
whimsicality }, {
whimsy },
{
whimsey }, {
capriciousness }]
Whimsey \
Whim "
sey \,
Whimsy \
Whimsy \,
n .;
pl . {
Whimseys }
or {
Whimsies }. [
See {
Whim }.]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
A whim ;
a freak ;
a capricious notion ,
a fanciful or odd conceit . "
The whimsies of poets and painters ." --
Ray .
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Men '
s folly ,
whimsies ,
and inconstancy . --
Swift .
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Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth . --
Bancroft .
[
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2 . (
Mining )
A whim .
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1913 Webster ]
Whimsy \
Whim "
sy \,
n .
A whimsey .
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1913 Webster ]
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "
whimsy ":
aberration ,
abnormality ,
anomaly ,
apparition ,
boutade ,
brainchild ,
brainstorm ,
bubble ,
capriccio ,
caprice ,
chimera ,
conceit ,
crackpotism ,
crank ,
crankiness ,
crankism ,
craze ,
crazy idea ,
crotchet ,
crotchetiness ,
delirium ,
deviancy ,
deviation ,
differentness ,
disposition ,
divergence ,
dottiness ,
dream ,
eccentricity ,
eidolon ,
erraticism ,
erraticness ,
fad ,
fancy ,
fantasque ,
fantastic notion ,
fantasy ,
fiction ,
figment ,
flimflam ,
fool notion ,
freak ,
freakiness ,
freakish inspiration ,
freakishness ,
hallucination ,
harebrained idea ,
humor ,
idea ,
idiocrasy ,
idiosyncrasy ,
idle fancy ,
illusion ,
imagery ,
imagination ,
imagining ,
inclination ,
insubstantial image ,
invention ,
irregularity ,
kink ,
maggot ,
make -
believe ,
mannerism ,
megrim ,
myth ,
nonconformity ,
notion ,
oddity ,
passing fancy ,
peculiarity ,
phantasm ,
phantom ,
queerness ,
quip ,
quirk ,
quirkiness ,
romance ,
sick fancy ,
singularity ,
strangeness ,
thick -
coming fancies ,
thought ,
toy ,
trick ,
trip ,
twist ,
unconventionality ,
unnaturalness ,
vagary ,
vapor ,
vision ,
whim ,
whim -
wham ,
whimsicality ,
wildest dreams
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