Meaning and example
determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
A capricious refusal
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 2.112 places whimsical in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 98.8% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 98.8%
expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement
- Known by
- 98.7%
not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
- Known by
- 98.7%
accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
- Known by
- 98.8%
provoke the hostility of
- Known by
- 98.8%
capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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