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# whimsical

«whimsical» in Mova's school dictionary: **odd, playful and full of fancy, not quite ordinary** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Whimsical means odd, playful and full of fancy, not quite ordinary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whimsical/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a whimsical person has funny, unexpected ideas

### examples

- What whimsical ideas these lunatics have! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whimsical/#x1)
- The king wore a whimsical hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whimsical/#x2)
- The statue looked whimsical in the moonlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whimsical/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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