Whim - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|wɪm|
Brit.
|wɪm|
noun
- a sudden desire (syn: caprice, impulse)
- an odd or fanciful or capricious idea (syn: notion, whimsey, whimsy)
- an odd or fanciful or capricious idea (syn: notion, whimsey, whimsy)
he had a whimsy about flying to the moon
whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it
whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it
Extra examples
It's hard to predict voters' whims.
...on a whim, we stopped at the roadside stand to get ice cream...
I didn't leave just on a whim (=for no good reason).
At work they are at the whim of the boss.
Their father had always indulged her every whim.
He appeared and disappeared at whim.
Employees have complained of being at the mercy of the manager's every whim and caprice.
...with no set course to follow, a windjammer sails wherever the wind and the captain's whim takes it...
His mother spoiled him, indulging his every whim.
Word forms
noun
singular: whim
plural: whims
singular: whim
plural: whims
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