What is the meaning of capricious?

adjective

  • Changeable.
    • usage: "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"
  • Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason.
    • usage: "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"
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