vagariesnoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈveɪ.ɡər.iz/us/ˈveɪ.ɡɚ.iz/formalunexpected events or changes that cannot be controlled and can influence a situation:
The success of the event will be determined by the vagaries of the weather.
She had her own style and was not influenced by the vagaries of fashion.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Uncertainty
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- circumstantial
- conflicted
- debatable
- definite maybe
- dispute
- joker
- joker in the pack idiom
- kind
- kind of idiom
- kinda
- knife edge
- razor
- shade
- tenuous
- there's no knowing idiom
- touch-and-go
- uncertain
- uncertainty
- vague
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