whim

Plural: whims

Noun

• A sudden desire, idea, or change of mind; a caprice.
• a sudden desire
• an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
  • "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"
  • "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"
• A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.
• A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes
• A bird, the Eurasian wigeon.

Verb

• To be seized with a whim; to be capricious.

Examples

• On a whim, she played ’QUAGMIRE’ and cleared her rack for a bingo.

Synonyms

caprice, impulse, notion, whimsey, whimsy, boutade, capriccio, conceit, crotchet, delirament, especially in phrase on a whim, fancy, fangle, figary, flisk, freak, kink, lark, maggot, megrim, spleen, toy, vagary, whim, whim-wham

Related Words

on a whim, whimling