Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.

    Laune, Grille, Marotte

    капри́зkapríz, при́хотьpríxotʹ, блажьblažʹ

    капри́зkaprýz, при́мхаprýmxa, забага́нкаzabahánka

    an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

  2. (countable, uncountable)A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes.

    Göpel

  3. A bird, the Eurasian wigeon.

Examples

36 sentences
  1. I did it on a whim.

    deIch habe das aus einer Laune heraus gemacht. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Don't pay any attention to her whims.

    Не зважай на її примхи. — deniko

    ruНе обращай внимания на её капризы. — marafon

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  3. Father was generous enough to indulge my every whim.

    Батько був достатньо щедрий, щоб потурати всім моїм примхам. — deniko

  4. At work they are at the whim of the boss.

    На роботі вони залежать від примх керівника. — deniko

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  5. You're catering to his every whim.

    ruТы потакаешь всем его капризам. — marafon

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
fanciful impulse:
Русский
By meaning 1
fanciful impulse:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
fanciful impulse:
large capstan:

Origin

Clipping of whim-wham. Compare whimbrel.

Clipping of whim-wham.

Compare whimbrel.

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Forms

plural: whims
Singularwhim
Pluralwhims

regular

Synonyms

24 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
whim — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto