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Definition of caprice in English: capricenoun kəˈpriːskəˈpris 1A sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behaviour. the caprices of the electorate mass noun a land where men were ruled by law and not by caprice Example sentencesExamples - Essentially, what has happened to O'Neill is no more than life, with all its vagaries and caprices.
- These are qualities that foreigners admire, accustomed as they more usually are to the caprices of their own leaders.
- Her narrative follows a loopy line traced more by mood and caprice than by causation or chronology.
- Even those who need emergency hospital care will be subjected to the caprices and bureaucratic diktat of the soldiers guarding the gates.
- Not by the wildest caprice of imagination was ‘a nation terrorized’ by McCarthy.
- But the spirit that endures the mere cruelties and caprices of an established despot is the spirit of an ancient and settled and probably stiffened society, not the spirit of a new one.
- Philosophers advise self-reliance, but whether the vagaries of science or the caprices of the gods, the ways of healing are just too complex for most people to manage without help.
- He was also able to draw on first-hand knowledge of the caprices of the writing life.
- It was an odd caprice of fate that an actor who would have preferred doing classical texts made his fame and fortune in something based on a comic book.
- But now, with Morgan's depiction of her caprices and attempts to outwit him, she suddenly sounds quite normal.
- It is not an inanimate thing, like a house, to be pulled down or enlarged or structurally altered at the caprice of the tenant or owner; it is a living thing.
- In our modern world, after all, power rarely lies hidden behind, say, Roman flat or the caprice of royal edict, at least not in the colonizing countries.
- And that is the difference: Nowadays our wars are so far from necessary that their cruelty and caprice still the urge to speak.
- Every state and government in the world is now vulnerable to the caprices and blackmails of financial markets.
- Dip in, and let yourself be governed by mood and caprice.
- The San Andreas last ruptured in 1906, and in doing so all but destroyed the city of San Francisco - the last time that a great American city was wrecked by a caprice of nature.
- But that might be less upsetting to witness than the scene here in Addis, where uncomplaining Ethiopians submit humbly to the bitter caprice of clinical selection.
- In the air-conditioned comfort of the ship's stately lounges my whims and caprices are anticipated by the quintessential British crew.
- Unless you live in Spain, it is difficult to count the layers of irony stacked up alongside that idea, after 103 years in which the caprice of human judgement would appear to have rather favoured the famous team in white.
- The recent practice of using foreign laws as bases for judicial decisions about American laws likewise turns law into the caprices John Stuart Mill feared more than he feared bad laws.
Synonyms whim, whimsy, vagary, fancy, notion, fad, freak, humour, impulse, quirk, eccentricity, foible, crotchet, urge fickleness, changeableness, volatility, inconstancy, capriciousness, fitfulness, unpredictability 2Music
the caprice was divided into a theme and eleven variations another term for capriccio Example sentencesExamples - Dress up like him and play one of his caprices with that wild hair.
- Studies for solo violin include Paganini's brilliant 24 caprices, which provided a fertile source of inspiration for other composers.
- Can anyone play Paganini's violin caprices and do them justice?
- I was feeling the exhaustion keenly - but not enough to make a complete ass of myself during choir, which inched by like a violist playing Paganini caprices.
- Paganini's 24th caprice for solo violin, itself a variation on an original theme, was creatively diversified by Brahms, Liszt, Szymanowski and, most lyrically, Rachmaninov.
- Dubost had herself conceived the ballet as a musical caprice and had given the ten leaves of her fan to ten different composers asking each of them to compose a single dance number.
Origin Mid 17th century: from French, from Italian (see capriccio). A caprice and hedgehogs seem far apart but if you put the Italian words capo ‘head’ and riccio ‘hedgehog’ together you get the word capriccio, or ‘hedgehog-head’—a head with the hair standing on end, like a hedgehog's spines. This is what can happen if you are terrified by something, so capriccio, the source of English caprice, came to mean ‘horror or shuddering’. Over time this eventually became ‘a sudden start, a sudden change’, perhaps influenced by Italian caper. Compare horror
Rhymes anis, apiece, Berenice, cassis, cease, coulisse, crease, Dumfries, fils, fleece, geese, grease, Greece, kris, lease, Lucrece, MacNeice, Matisse, McAleese, Nice, niece, obese, peace, pelisse, police, Rees, Rhys, set piece, sublease, surcease, two-piece, underlease Definition of caprice in US English: capricenounkəˈpriskəˈprēs 1A sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior. the caprices of the electorate a land where men were ruled by law and not by caprice Example sentencesExamples - It was an odd caprice of fate that an actor who would have preferred doing classical texts made his fame and fortune in something based on a comic book.
- The recent practice of using foreign laws as bases for judicial decisions about American laws likewise turns law into the caprices John Stuart Mill feared more than he feared bad laws.
- Essentially, what has happened to O'Neill is no more than life, with all its vagaries and caprices.
- Every state and government in the world is now vulnerable to the caprices and blackmails of financial markets.
- But the spirit that endures the mere cruelties and caprices of an established despot is the spirit of an ancient and settled and probably stiffened society, not the spirit of a new one.
- Unless you live in Spain, it is difficult to count the layers of irony stacked up alongside that idea, after 103 years in which the caprice of human judgement would appear to have rather favoured the famous team in white.
- In the air-conditioned comfort of the ship's stately lounges my whims and caprices are anticipated by the quintessential British crew.
- Philosophers advise self-reliance, but whether the vagaries of science or the caprices of the gods, the ways of healing are just too complex for most people to manage without help.
- Dip in, and let yourself be governed by mood and caprice.
- In our modern world, after all, power rarely lies hidden behind, say, Roman flat or the caprice of royal edict, at least not in the colonizing countries.
- Her narrative follows a loopy line traced more by mood and caprice than by causation or chronology.
- And that is the difference: Nowadays our wars are so far from necessary that their cruelty and caprice still the urge to speak.
- The San Andreas last ruptured in 1906, and in doing so all but destroyed the city of San Francisco - the last time that a great American city was wrecked by a caprice of nature.
- It is not an inanimate thing, like a house, to be pulled down or enlarged or structurally altered at the caprice of the tenant or owner; it is a living thing.
- Not by the wildest caprice of imagination was ‘a nation terrorized’ by McCarthy.
- He was also able to draw on first-hand knowledge of the caprices of the writing life.
- These are qualities that foreigners admire, accustomed as they more usually are to the caprices of their own leaders.
- But that might be less upsetting to witness than the scene here in Addis, where uncomplaining Ethiopians submit humbly to the bitter caprice of clinical selection.
- But now, with Morgan's depiction of her caprices and attempts to outwit him, she suddenly sounds quite normal.
- Even those who need emergency hospital care will be subjected to the caprices and bureaucratic diktat of the soldiers guarding the gates.
Synonyms whim, whimsy, vagary, fancy, notion, fad, freak, humour, impulse, quirk, eccentricity, foible, crotchet, urge fickleness, changeableness, volatility, inconstancy, capriciousness, fitfulness, unpredictability 2Music
another term for capriccio Example sentencesExamples - Studies for solo violin include Paganini's brilliant 24 caprices, which provided a fertile source of inspiration for other composers.
- Can anyone play Paganini's violin caprices and do them justice?
- I was feeling the exhaustion keenly - but not enough to make a complete ass of myself during choir, which inched by like a violist playing Paganini caprices.
- Paganini's 24th caprice for solo violin, itself a variation on an original theme, was creatively diversified by Brahms, Liszt, Szymanowski and, most lyrically, Rachmaninov.
- Dubost had herself conceived the ballet as a musical caprice and had given the ten leaves of her fan to ten different composers asking each of them to compose a single dance number.
- Dress up like him and play one of his caprices with that wild hair.
Origin Mid 17th century: from French, from Italian (see capriccio). |