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whimsical
adjective
1 a whimsical sense of humor:
fanciful, playful, mischievous, waggish, quaint, fantastic, unusual, curious, droll;
eccentric, quirky, offbeat, idiosyncratic, unconventional, outlandish, peculiar, bizarre, weird, odd, freakish;
informal freaky;
British, informal dotty.
2 the whimsical arbitrariness of autocracy:
volatile, capricious, temperamental, impulsive, excitable, fickle, changeable, unpredictable, variable, erratic, quicksilver, mercurial, mutable, inconstant, inconsistent, unstable, unsteady, fluctuating, ever-changing, protean, kaleidoscopic, fluid, wavering, vacillating, wayward;
technical labile.