Word Meanings - CROTCHETY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CROTCHETY)
- Capricious
- Wayward
- uncertain
- fanciful
- freakish
- fitful
- fickle
- changeful
- whimsical
- humorsome
- inconstant
- crotchety
- Whimsical
- Freakish
- capricious
- fantastic
- quaint
- droll
- farcical
Related words: (words related to CROTCHETY)
- FANTASTIC
1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic - CAPRICIOUS
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; - CHANGEFUL
Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n. - FANTASTICALITY
Fantastically. - DROLLIST
A droll. Glanvill. - DROLLISH
Somewhat droll. Sterne. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - FANTASTICLY
Fantastically. - DROLL
Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical. - UNCERTAINLY
In an uncertain manner. - FANTASTICISM
The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin. - HUMORSOMENESS
Quality of being humorsome. - FICKLE
Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; - FANTASTICAL
Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic. - HUMORSOMELY
Pleasantly; humorously. - FANCIFUL
1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful - FANTASTICNESS
Fantasticalness. - WAYWARD
Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. My wife is in a wayward mood. Shak. Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. Fairfax. Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought Keble. -- Way"ward*ly, adv. -- Way"ward*ness, n. - QUAINT
pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con + noscere (for 1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer. 2. Characterized - CROTCHETY
Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man. - ACQUAINTANCE
1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract - ACQUAINTED
Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t. - DISACQUAINT
To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick. - INACQUAINTANCE
Want of acquaintance. Good. - PREACQUAINTANCE
Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris. - AWAYWARD
Turned away; away. Chaucer. - PREACQUAINT
To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.