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Word Meanings - FRISKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay. He is too frisky for an old man. Jeffrey.

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  • CAPRICIOUS
    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;
  • ERRATIC
    1. Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The earth and each erratic world. Blackmore. 2. Deviating from a wise of the common
  • SPORTFUL
    1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful
  • FANCIFUL
    1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful
  • WHIMSICALITY
    The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
  • FRISKY
    Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay. He is too frisky for an old man. Jeffrey.
  • FREAKISH
    Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness,
  • WHIMSICALNESS
    The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.
  • WHIMSICALLY
    In a whimsical manner; freakishly.
  • WHIMSICAL
    1. Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. "A whimsical insult." Macaulay. My neighbors call me whimsical. Addison. 2. Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.
  • ERRATICAL
    Erratic. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ness, n.
  • INERRATIC
    Not erratic or wandering; fixed; settled; established.

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