vagariousadj.
/vəˈɡɛːrɪəs/, U.S. /vəˈɡɛriəs/, /veɪˈɡɛriəs/ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]
slidinga900
wankleeOE
windyc1000
unsteadfastc1200
fleeting?c1225
loose?c1225
brotelc1315
unstablec1340
varyingc1340
variantc1374
motleyc1380
ungroundedc1380
muablea1393
passiblea1393
remuablea1393
changeablea1398
movablea1398
variablec1397
slidderya1400
ticklec1400
variantc1412
flitting1413
mutable?a1425
movingc1425
flaskisable1430
flickering1430
transmutablec1430
vertible1447
brittlea1450
ficklea1450
permutablec1450
unfirmc1450
uncertain1477
turnable1483
unsteadfast1483
vagrantc1522
inconstant1526
alterable?1531
stirringc1540
slippery1548
various1552
slid?1553
mutala1561
rolling1561
weathery1563
unconstant1568
interchangeable1574
fluctuant1575
stayless1575
transitive1575
voluble1575
changeling1577
queasy1579
desultory1581
huff-puff1582
unstaid1586
vagrant1586
changeful1590
floating1594
Protean1594
unstayed1594
swimming1596
anchorless1597
mobilec1600
ticklish1601
catching1603
labile1603
unrooted1604
quicksilvered1605
versatile1605
insubstantial1607
uncertain1609
brandling1611
rootless1611
squeasy1611
wind-changinga1616
insolid1618
ambulatory1625
versatilous1629
plastic1633
desultorious1637
unbottomed1641
fluid1642
fluent1648
yea-and-nay1648
versipellous1650
flexile1651
uncentred1652
variating1653
chequered1656
slideable1662
transchangeative1662
weathercock-like1663
flicketing1674
fluxa1677
lapsable1678
wanton1681
veering1684
upon the weathercock1702
contingent1703
unsettled?1726
fermentable1731
afloat1757
brickle1768
wavy1795
vagarious1798
unsettled1803
fitful1810
metamorphosical1811
undulating1815
tittupya1817
titubant1817
mutative1818
papier mâché1818
teetotum1819
vacillating1822
capricious1823
sensitive1828
quicksilvery1829
unengrafted1829
fluxionala1834
proteiform1833
liquid1835
tottlish1835
kaleidoscopic1846
versative1846
kaleidoscopical1858
tottery1861
choppy1865
variative1874
variational1879
wimbly-wambly1881
fluctuable1882
shifty1882
giveable1884
shifty1884
tippy1886
mutatory1890
upsettable1890
rocky1897
undulatory1897
streaky1898
tottly1905
tipply1906
up and down1907
inertialess1927
sometimey1946
rise-and-fall1950
switchable1961
1798 R. P. Tour in Wales (MS.) 36 Thus life's vagarious tenure passes on! And thus, the scenic vision glows with change!
2. Marked or characterized by, full of, subject to, vagaries; erratic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical > marked or characterized by capriciousness
fantastical1531
feathery1601
fantasticala1618
arbitrary1646
fancy1646
whimmed1654
fantastic1658
volatile1661
vagarious1827
1827 Examiner 70/1 The Travels of Wilhelm Meister, wild, vagarious, and disconnected as it is.
a1871 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes (1872) 153 Mr. Wirgman's mind was somewhat attuned to psychology; but he was cracky and vagarious.
1897 Atlantic Monthly 79 134 The work..is free from the vagarious theorizing.
3. Wandering, roaming, roving.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering
wanderingc1000
erringa1340
waggeringa1382
vagant1382
vagabond1426
erroneousa1464
fugitive1481
wavering1487
vagrantc1522
gadding1545
roaming1566
roving1576
straggling1589
rambling?1609
wagand1614
wheelinga1616
gadling1616
vagring1619
erratical1620
vaguing1627
erratic1656
planetical1656
waif1724
vagrarious1795
stravaiging1825
vagarious1882
pirooting1958
1882 Harper's Mag. Apr. 661 Sharp interruption from the vagarious horned enemy.
1888 Sat. Rev. 22 Sept. 363/2 The history of the vagarious canary, Kiki.
Derivatives
vaˈgariously adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adverb] > capriciously
unstaidly1556
fantastically1567
humorously1593
skittishly1598
fantasticly1599
garishly1606
humoursomely1653
whimsily1654
quirkishly1673
peevishlya1680
whimsically1711
fancifully1741
capriciously1746
flightily1780
erratically1861
tricksily1866
vagariously1892
quirkily1926
1892 Dispatch (Columbus) 17 Nov. An idly planned and vagariously disposed though always picturesque college retreat.
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