Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Capriciously"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Capricious \Ca*pri"cious\, a. [Cf. F. capricleux, It.
capriccioso.]
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; fickle; crotchety;
fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain;
inconstant; arbitrary. -- {Ca*pri"cious*ly}, adv. --
{Ca*pri"cious*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
capriciously
adv 1: unpredictably; "the weather has been freakishly variable"
[syn: {freakishly}]
2: in a capricious manner; "there were Turk's head lilies and
patches of iris , islands of brilliant blue set
capriciously in the green sea"
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