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also whimsey
as in humor
a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action
the pop singer's latest whimsy is that she has acting talent
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Recent Examples of whimsy
Spring tablescapes have a way of bringing out our inner whimsy with floral placemats, colorful candlesticks, and now (again) with cabbageware: dishes that look like cabbage.
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Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2025
Directed by Adam Brooks and based on the novel by Lori Nelson Spielman, The Life List aims to balance whimsy with deeply relatable emotional stakes and turn a familiar setup into something that feels universal.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Tom Robbins dazzled millions of readers with the whimsy and imagination in his bestselling novels, such as 1984's Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, from 1990, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, a 1976 book adapted by director Gus Van Sant into a 1993 film.
—Tom Vitale, NPR, 9 Feb. 2025
Grab a few of the brand’s vibrant Flower Plates in Turquoise (the only hue that’s currently in stock), whose ridged, upward-sloping edges will add many tablespoons of whimsy to all upcoming meals.
—Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 17 Mar. 2025
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Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2025
Directed by Adam Brooks and based on the novel by Lori Nelson Spielman, The Life List aims to balance whimsy with deeply relatable emotional stakes and turn a familiar setup into something that feels universal.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Tom Robbins dazzled millions of readers with the whimsy and imagination in his bestselling novels, such as 1984's Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, from 1990, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, a 1976 book adapted by director Gus Van Sant into a 1993 film.
—Tom Vitale, NPR, 9 Feb. 2025
Grab a few of the brand’s vibrant Flower Plates in Turquoise (the only hue that’s currently in stock), whose ridged, upward-sloping edges will add many tablespoons of whimsy to all upcoming meals.
—Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whimsy
Noun
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Their early short films were made on shoestring budgets, relying on humor and inventive storytelling.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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For her performance, Clarkson sported a Buffalo Bills jacket — a nod to that day’s guest, Hailee Steinfeld, who is engaged to quarterback Josh Allen — and kept her vocal arrangement free of any of her signature high notes or riffs, letting the humor of Crow’s lyrics speak for itself.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
9 Apr. 2025
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Dozens of Arab and Muslim-majority countries have rejected the notion as ethnic cleansing.—
Daniel Estrin,
NPR,
11 Mar. 2025
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And the notion of the resource team working with troublemakers doesn’t sit well with some officers not involved in the pilots at Garner and York.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
10 Mar. 2025
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But Greer is attempting to systematize a policy environment that is being by driven by fiat and decree, the whims of the man at the top.—
Dewardric L. McNeal,
CNBC,
6 Apr. 2025
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The very structure and pacing of the film reflects the rhythm of a real game—tense, strategic and methodical, but always at the whim of whatever fate has in store.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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That notebook is the source for these quick and sweaty odds and ends that didn’t fit into my first impressions story.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 Apr. 2025
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Yet Armstrong has made an instantaneous and significant impression.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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Access The Athletic’s guide for abbreviations used in fantasy baseball.—
John Laghezza,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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Black strip club dancers, however, adopted a different approach, one that left behind any trace of a girl-next-door fantasy and embraced a brand new flex.—
Alexandra Jane,
Essence,
10 Apr. 2025
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Vape shops have spread across the American retail landscape with a bizarre swiftness, seemingly unbeholden to the same vagaries of inflation, customer demand, and local real estate that bind every other kind of storefront small business in the country.—
Amanda Mull,
The Atlantic,
22 June 2023
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Third, repeaters should prove capable of swapping this data between nodes in a network in a predictable way and not one too subject to the vagaries of chance.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
13 June 2023
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An e-mail publication was invulnerable to the caprices of social-media platforms and their algorithms.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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But Cass is not the man to beat his head in bitterness over female caprice.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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Cicadas aren't equipped to sting like bees or wasps.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
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Along with its easy cleaning features, this feeder also keeps bees and ants at bay.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Whimsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whimsy. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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