单词 | whimsical |
释义 | whim·si·cal 1. < although so sedate, she was also whimsical and freakish — Virginia Woolf > < hard to tell when he was really peevish or merely whimsical — W.L.Howard > 2. a. < a glint of provocative, whimsical fun in his blue eyes — Monica Pearson > < whimsical notions which indicate that reason is out of touch with the real — Marjorie Harris > < whimsical, precarious, unlikely ventures — Audrey Barker > < whimsical evaluations of justice and equity … based on a purely social concept — Current Biography > < many of these whimsical creations seem to suffer from too much striving to be different — Betty Pepis > b. < one cotton mill and a whimsical power plant — Virginia A. Oakes > < a whimsical market fluctuating according to world conditions > < the whimsical moods of the Alpine sun — Claudia Cassidy > • whim·si·cal·ly • whim·si·cal·ness |
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