Ca*pri"cious (?), a. [Cf. F. capricleux, It. capriccioso.]
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.
"
Capricious poet."
Shak. "
Capricious humor."
Hugh Miller.
A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.
Hallam.
Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain; inconstant; arbitrary.
-- Ca*pri"cious*ly, adv. -- Ca*pri"cious*ness, n.
© Webster 1913.