whimsy – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
whimsy
n.
impulsiveness; captivating eccentricity
Whimsical
Whimsical may refer to:
- Whimsical (horse) (born 1903), 1906 winner of the Preakness Stakes
- "Whimsical," a song by Days of the New from their 1997 album Days of the New (also known as the "Orange album")
- Whimsical Stakes, a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid April at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario
- Whimsical Will, the Demented News broadcaster on the Dr. Demento radio show
- Whimsical World Collection, Taiwanese Mandopop artiste Rainie Yang's first collection album
whimsy
Noun
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, whimsey
(hypernym) idea, thought
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, whimsey, capriciousness
(hypernym) irresponsibility, irresponsibleness
Whimsy
(n.)
A whimsey.
(n.)
A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.
(n.)
A whim.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
whimsy
Synonyms and related words:
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
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.
