Thesaurus:whim

Thesaurus:whim

THESAURUS

whim

English

Synonyms

• boutade

• caprice

• capriccio

• conceit

• crotchet (archaic)

• delirament (obsolete)

• fancy

• fangle

• figary (obsolete)

• flisk (Scotland)

• freak

• lark

• maggot (obsolete)

• megrim (rare)

• spleen (obsolete)

• toy    [WS] (obsolete)

• vagary

• whim

• whim-wham

• whimsy

Hypernyms

• idea

• impulse

• notion

• thought

Various

• on a whim (idiomatic)

• whimling (obsolete)

Further reading

• “515. imagination” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “608. caprice” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “whim” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.