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Word Meanings - CROTCHETY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.

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  • 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.

 

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