Thesaurus:whim

Thesaurus

whim

English

Noun

Sense: a fanciful impulse or whimsical idea

Synonyms

• boutade
• caprice
• capriccio
• conceit
• crotchet (archaic)
• delirament (obsolete)
• fancy
• fangle
• figary (obsolete)
• flisk (Scotland)
• freak
• kink
• lark
• maggot (obsolete)
• megrim (rare)
• spleen (obsolete)
• toy    [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
• vagary
• whim
• whim-wham
• whimsy

Hypernyms

• idea
• impulse
• notion
• thought

Various

• on a whim (idiomatic)
• whimling (obsolete)

Further reading

• “515. imagination” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “608. caprice” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “whim” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.