whims

A whim is a sudden, irrational desire. Whims can be anything from wanting to eat ice cream every day to wanting to dye your hair green.

  • She had a sudden whim to dye her hair green.

  • He had a sudden whim to eat ice cream every day.

Definition of whims

noun

a sudden desire

Synonyms:

caprice, impulse

noun

an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

Synonyms:

notion, whimsey, whimsy

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Example Sentences for whims

  • 1

    A whole novel is at the whim of the author.

  • 2

    It's entriely up to the whim of the author.

  • 3

    It's pretty much at the whim of the maker.

  • 4

    His whim changes often.

  • 5

    Either there is policy or the whims of the administrators.

  • 6

    Essentially, it's up to the whim of the board.

  • 7

    The latter being merely at the whim of the author.

  • 8

    It was not created by the whim of a potentate, king, pope or emperor.

  • 9

    The cap could be screwed down at the whim of the torturer.

  • 10

    It is the capricious whims of fate that determine the variables of a human life.