It was simply caprice that led them to shoplift.
Source: tatoeba (10545050)
Caprice
//kəˈpɹiːs//
Synonyms for "caprice" (74 found)
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Related words (37)
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2 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 24 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- tekë noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- trill noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σχεδίασμα noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Breton
1 entries- froudenn noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Bulgarian
4 entries- изменчивост noun (unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes)
- импулсивност noun (disposition to be impulsive)
- каприз noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- непостоянност noun (unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes)
Catalan
4 entries- caprici noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- caprici noun (unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes)
- capritx noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- capritx noun (unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 隨想 /随想 noun (impulsive change of mind)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 隨想 /随想 noun (impulsive change of mind)
Czech
4 entries- kapric noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- kapric noun (impulsive change of mind)
- rozmar noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- vrtoch noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Dutch
2 entries- capriolen noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- capriool noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Esperanto
1 entries- kaprico noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Finnish
4 entries- heitto noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- möläys noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- oikku noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- oikku noun (unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes)
French
1 entries- caprice noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
German
1 entries- Laune noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Icelandic
2 entries- duttlungur noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- dyntur noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Irish
1 entries- fíbín noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Kalmyk
1 entries- яр noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Latin
1 entries- arbitrium noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Polish
2 entries- kaprys noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- kaprys noun (unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes)
Portuguese
1 entries- capricho noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Romanian
2 entries- capriciu noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- impulsivitate noun (disposition to be impulsive)
Russian
2 entries- капри́з noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- своенравие noun (disposition to be impulsive)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- hȋr noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- хи̑р noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Spanish
1 entries- capricho noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Swedish
4 entries- infall noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- nyck noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- påhitt noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
- ryck noun (impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
I'm not sure whether this is some new caprice or a permanent commitment.
Source: tatoeba (10957304)
George Frederick Handel, unquestionably the greatest master of music the world has ever known, was born at Halle, in Upper Saxony, on the 24th of February, 1684. Scarcely could he speak, before he articulated musical sounds; and his father, a physician, then upwards of sixty, having destined him for the law, grieved at the child’s propensity to music, banished from his house all musical instruments. But the immortal spark of genius, which Heaven had kindled in the infant’s bosom, was not to be extinguished by the caprice of a mistaken parent. The child contrived to get a little clavichord into a garret; where, applying himself after the family retired to rest, he soon found means to produce both melody and harmony.
Source: tatoeba (12206387)
Though more thoughtful than Madame de Mercœur, yet it asked far more knowledge of society—that wilderness of small intricacies—for her to penetrate into the motives of those who seemed so suddenly struck with her fascination; but she was too clear-headed to be deceived, and set it all down under one general belief in caprice.
Source: wiktionary
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