Father was generous enough to indulge my every whim.
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Whim
//wɪm//
Synonyms for "whim" (114 found)
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Related words (57)
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3 entriesderived
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2 entriesis a
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8 entriesTranslations
80 translations across 35 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- rrebe noun (fanciful impulse)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σχεδίασμα noun (fanciful impulse)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- şıltaq noun (fanciful impulse)
Bikol Central
1 entries- kauragan noun (fanciful impulse)
Bulgarian
2 entries- каприз noun (fanciful impulse)
- прищявка noun (fanciful impulse)
Catalan
4 entries- antull noun (fanciful impulse)
- caprici noun (fanciful impulse)
- capritx noun (fanciful impulse)
- curolla noun (fanciful impulse)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 奇想 noun (fanciful impulse)
- 怪念頭 /怪念头 noun (fanciful impulse)
Czech
1 entries- rozmar noun (fanciful impulse)
Danish
3 entries- grille noun (fanciful impulse)
- indfald noun (fanciful impulse)
- indskydelse noun (fanciful impulse)
Dutch
1 entries- gril noun (fanciful impulse)
Esperanto
1 entries- kaprico noun (fanciful impulse)
Finnish
1 entries- oikku noun (fanciful impulse)
French
2 entries- caprice noun (fanciful impulse)
- lubie noun (fanciful impulse)
Galician
4 entries- antollo noun (fanciful impulse)
- celeima noun (fanciful impulse)
- gurrumío noun (fanciful impulse)
- mecada noun (fanciful impulse)
German
4 entries- Grille noun (fanciful impulse)
- Kaprize noun (fanciful impulse)
- Laune noun (fanciful impulse)
- Marotte noun (fanciful impulse)
Hebrew
1 entries- גַּחֲמָה noun (fanciful impulse)
Hungarian
1 entries- szeszély noun (fanciful impulse)
Icelandic
3 entries- duttlungur noun (fanciful impulse)
- dyntur noun (fanciful impulse)
- kenjar noun (fanciful impulse)
Italian
4 entries- capriccio noun (fanciful impulse)
- fantasia noun (fanciful impulse)
- ghiribizzo noun (fanciful impulse)
- gnagnera noun (fanciful impulse)
Japanese
1 entries- 気紛れ noun (fanciful impulse)
Kalmyk
1 entries- яр noun (fanciful impulse)
Latin
1 entries- arbitrium noun (fanciful impulse)
Macedonian
1 entries- хир noun (fanciful impulse)
Māori
1 entries- whakaaro ohia noun (fanciful impulse)
Persian
1 entries- ویر noun (fanciful impulse)
Polish
2 entries- kaprys noun (fanciful impulse)
- widzimisię noun (fanciful impulse)
Portuguese
2 entries- capricho noun (fanciful impulse)
- inspiração noun (fanciful impulse)
Romanian
2 entries- capriciu noun (fanciful impulse)
- toană noun (fanciful impulse)
Russian
4 entries- блажь noun (fanciful impulse)
- капри́з noun (fanciful impulse)
- при́хоть noun (fanciful impulse)
- причу́да noun (fanciful impulse)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- hȋr noun (fanciful impulse)
- хи̑р noun (fanciful impulse)
Slovak
2 entries- rozmar noun (fanciful impulse)
- vrtoch noun (fanciful impulse)
Slovene
1 entries- kaprica noun (fanciful impulse)
Spanish
3 entries- antojo noun (fanciful impulse)
- capricho noun (fanciful impulse)
- ventolera noun (fanciful impulse)
Swedish
2 entries- infall noun (fanciful impulse)
- nyck noun (fanciful impulse)
Turkish
1 entries- kapris noun (fanciful impulse)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
If you write your address on a web-page, anybody can find out where you live if the whim takes them.
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At work they are at the whim of the boss.
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Once you decide to enter a profession, you can't change your mind on a whim.
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