Word Meanings - CROTCHETY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CROTCHETY)

• Capricious
• Wayward
• uncertain
• fanciful
• freakish
• fitful
• fickle
• changeful
• whimsical
• humorsome
• inconstant
• crotchety
• Whimsical
• Freakish
• capricious
• fantastic
• quaint
• droll
• farcical

Related words: (words related to CROTCHETY)

• FANTASTIC
  1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• FANTASTICLY
  Fantastically.
• DROLL
  Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• FANTASTICISM
  The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.
• HUMORSOMENESS
  Quality of being humorsome.
• FICKLE
  Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled;
• FANTASTICAL
  Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
• HUMORSOMELY
  Pleasantly; humorously.
• FANCIFUL
  1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful
• FANTASTICNESS
  Fantasticalness.
• WAYWARD
  Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. My wife is in a wayward mood. Shak. Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. Fairfax. Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought Keble. -- Way"ward*ly, adv. -- Way"ward*ness, n.
• QUAINT
  pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con + noscere (for 1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer. 2. Characterized
• CROTCHETY
  Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• ACQUAINTED
  Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.
• DISACQUAINT
  To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• AWAYWARD
  Turned away; away. Chaucer.
• PREACQUAINT
  To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.