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Antonyms for whim
ʰwɪm, wɪmwhim

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Wiktionary1.0 / 2 votes

  1. whimnoun

    Synonyms:
    on a lark, lark

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.8 / 4 votes

  1. whim

    An intellectual fancy is a mental image or picture founded upon slight or whimsical association or resemblance; a conceit has less of the picturesque and more of the theoretic than a fancy; a conceit is somewhat aside from the common laws of reasoning, as a fancy is lighter and more airy than the common mode of thought. A conceit or fancy may be wholly unfounded, while a conception always has, or is believed to have, some answering reality. (Compare REASON.) An intellectual fancy or conceit may be pleasing or amusing, but is never worth serious discussion; we speak of a mere fancy, a droll or odd conceit. An emotional or personal fancy is a capricious liking formed with slight reason and no exercise of judgment, and liable to fade as lightly as it was formed. In a broader sense, the fancy signifies the faculty by which fancies or mental images are formed, associated, or combined. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.

    Antonyms:
    actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

    Synonyms:
    belief, caprice, conceit, conception, desire, fancy, humor, idea, image, imagination, inclination, liking, mood, predilection, supposition, vagary

    Preposition:
    To have a fancy for or take a fancy to a person or thing.

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. caprice, impulse, whimnoun

    a sudden desire

    "he bought it on an impulse"

    Synonyms:
    pulsing, nerve impulse, nervous impulse, impetus, momentum, urge, impulsion, caprice, pulse, notion, neural impulse, whimsey, impulse, pulsation, whimsy

  2. notion, whim, whimsy, whimseynoun

    an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

    "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

    Synonyms:
    whimsicality, whimsy, impression, feeling, notion, flightiness, opinion, caprice, whimsey, capriciousness, belief, impulse, arbitrariness

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. whimnoun

    Synonyms:
    vagary, caprice, fancy, crotchet, freak, humor, maggot, notion, quirk

How to use whim in a sentence?

  1. Edward Abbey:

    Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

  2. Supreme Court in Manhattan:

    Mr. Trump ran the Foundation according to his whim, rather than the law.

  3. Lisa Haisha:

    Being reactive is like experiencing the world on choppy seas, always at the whim of the weather.

  4. Kenneth Chang:

    A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.

  5. Brandie Nonnecke:

    They shouldn't just be deciding on a whim what they want to do.

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