whimsical

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
21
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈwɪmzɪkəl/

Definition of whimsical

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Given to whimsy.
    “"But perhaps he may be a little whimsical in his civilities," replied her uncle. "Your great men often are; and therefore I shall not take him at his word, as he might change his mind another day, and warn me off his grounds."”
    “Mr. Sherlock Holmes was leaning back in his chair after his whimsical protest, and was unfolding his morning paper in a leisurely fashion, […].”
    “The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires today. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical.”
    “Her lips wavered into a smile—she had been distracted by the whimsical remembrance of the confidences she had made to him, two years earlier, in that very room.”
    “Lovers of the movies may well date a new screen era from the day those whimsical pantomimers set their wholesome and humane talent at the service of the arc light and the lens.”

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Etymology

From whimsy + -ical.

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