whimsical
whimsical is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic. "A whimsical chair." Evelyn.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurdity
- and
- anticlimax
- arbitrary
- awkward
- baroque
- bathos
- bear
- bizarre
- blow
- bombast
- bombastic
- boutade
- brain
- buffoonery
- burlesque
- camel
- capriccio
- caprice
- capricious
- captious
- chase
- cold
- comedy
- comical
- comicality
- commit
- contemptible
- contrary
- crotchet
- crotchety
- dancing
- derisive
- deuce
- doggerel
- droll
- drollery
- drollish
- eccentric
- eccentricity
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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