0 changing mood or behaviour suddenly and unexpectedly:
1 likely to change, or reacting to a sudden desire or new idea:
The ideal of being independent from the capricious events of the world was obviously of great importance to a wide variety of early modern thinkers.
Typically, when faced with apparently capricious rules, researchers seek ways to express the changes as natural looking processes, given some theoretical model.
Bankrupting one taxpayer to pay the costs of another could be seen as truly capricious.
She too was a temptress who could beguile and terrify, and she was very capricious.
This then breaks down into a march, which is more regular (and slightly pompous) and sometimes pitted against the capricious material.
One is the capricious nature of the oscillations.
The popular profile of ballooning as a capricious and 'unscientific' business has a long history.
In her new milieu, this child is, in reality, considered to be a captive, subject to the capricious demands of her new environment.
