Vagary

//vəˈɡɛɚ.i//

Synonyms for "vagary" (81 found)

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Translations

37 translations across 14 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • приумица noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)
  • прищявка noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)

Catalan

2 entries
  • capritx noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)
  • extravagáncia noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)

Czech

2 entries
  • rozmar noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)
  • vrtoch noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)

Dutch

3 entries
  • gril noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)
  • nuk noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)
  • wispelturigheid noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)

Finnish

2 entries
  • päähänpisto noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)
  • päähänpisto noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)

French

2 entries
  • caprice noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)
  • extravagance noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)

Georgian

3 entries
  • ახირება noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)
  • გამოსვლა noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)
  • კაპრიზი noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)

German

2 entries
  • Laune noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)
  • Unwägbarkeit noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)

Greek

2 entries
  • ιδιοτροπία noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)
  • φαντασιοπληξία noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)

Occitan

4 entries
  • alèa noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)
  • azard noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)
  • caprici noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)
  • escasença noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)

Persian

3 entries
  • بلهوسی noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)
  • دمدمیمزاجی noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)
  • هوس noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • capricho noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)
  • extravagância noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)

Russian

3 entries
  • вы́ходка noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)
  • зага́дка noun (something vague)
  • капри́з noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)

Spanish

4 entries
  • antojo noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)
  • capricho noun (An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice)
  • extravagancia noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)
  • rareza noun (An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Your impertinent attempts at national self-humilitiation have the vagary of a demented maniac, provide you with no condescension but accumulate contempt in the eyes of others and your total worthlessness is congruentially equivallent to your repugnantly low grammatic skills.

Source: tatoeba (2915587)

He was accustomed to obey without opposition, and, although wondering at this sudden vagary on the part of his master, usually so reasonable in all things, hastened to do his bidding.

Source: tatoeba (12038419)

It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil, continually oozing up beneath the pressure of the strata above it.

Source: wiktionary

This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.

Source: wiktionary

Showing 4 of 7 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.