vagary – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
vagary
n.
odd or unexpected action or idea
List of English terms of venery, by animal
This is a list of English
terms of venery (
venery being an archaic word for hunting), comprising terms from a tradition that arose in the
Late Middle Ages, at least partly from the
Book of Saint Albans of 1486. The list also includes more common collective terms (such as
herd and
flock) for some animals.
vagary
Noun
1. an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.); "the vagaries of the weather"; "his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market"; "he has dealt with human vagaries for many years"
(hypernym) change, alteration, modification
Vagary
(n.)
Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose.
(n.)
A wandering or strolling.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
vagary
Synonyms and related words:
aberration, bee, boutade, brainstorm, capriccio, caprice, circuitousness, conceit, crank, craze, crazy idea, crosswiseness, crotchet, daydream, declination, deflection, deflexure, deviance, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, divagation, divergence, dream, excursion, fad, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, flimflam, fool notion, freak, freakish inspiration, harebrained idea, humor, indirection, indirectness, kink, maggot, megrim, nonconformity, notion, obliqueness, obliquity, passing fancy, quirk, skewness, squint, toy, transverseness, whim, whim-wham, whimsy
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
