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whimsy 音标拼音: [w'ɪmsi] [hw'ɪmsi] n. 怪念头,心情浮动,反复无常 怪念头,心情浮动,反复无常 whimsy n 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}, {whimsy}, {whimsey}] 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}, {whimsy}, {whimsey}, {capriciousness}] Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. {Whimseys}or {Whimsies}. [See {Whim}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. "The whimsies of poets and painters." --Ray. [1913 Webster] Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mining) A whim. [1913 Webster] Whimsy \Whim"sy\, n. A whimsey. [1913 Webster] 96 Moby Thesaurus words for "whimsy":
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