whimsy

Plural: whimsies

Noun

• Playfully quaint or fanciful behavior or humor; a whim.
• 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"
• the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
• A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
• An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
• A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
• A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.
• The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty.

Verb

• To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.

Adj

• Synonym of whimsical.

Examples

• Her choice to use a blank for ’FUZZY’ was pure whimsy, yet effective.

Synonyms

arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, notion, whim, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsical

Related Words

WHIMSIED

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