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# capricious

«capricious» in Mova's school dictionary: **changing your mind often and without reason; moody and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more capricious, most capricious)

### meaning for a pupil

Capricious means changing your mind often and without reason; moody and unpredictable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capricious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a princess or wife in tales who is moody and hard to please, so nobody knows what she will want next

### examples

- The princess was capricious: she cried, then laughed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capricious/#x1)
- A capricious wind blew the kite about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capricious/#x2)
- You cannot please a capricious child. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capricious/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «capricious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capricious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.