Capricious
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

COY
Showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement; "a politician coy about his intentions"

4 letters

WAVY
Uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves

IFFY
Subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition"

MAZY
Resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths"

5 letters

DICEY
Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker

VAGUE
Not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke

ROUGH
Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

KINKY
(of hair) in small tight curls

MOODY
United States evangelist (1837-1899)

LOOSE
Become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"

JERKY
Meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

GIDDY
Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"

FRAIL
A basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)

FLAKY
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

FANCY
Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

EROSE
Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

DYING
The time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"

DIZZY
Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"

6 letters

FICKLE
Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"

AFLOAT
Borne on the water; floating

ADRIFT
Afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm the boats were adrift"

WOBBLY
A member of the Industrial Workers of the World

WAVERY

WANTON
Spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away"

UNTRUE
Not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue"

SPOTTY
Lacking consistency; "the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty"

UNSURE
Lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance; "uncertain of his convictions"; "unsure of himself and his future"; "moving with uncertain (or unsure) steps"; "an uncertain smile"; "touched the ornaments with uncertain fingers"

UNEVEN
Not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain"

SHIFTY
Characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes"

ROVING
Travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

RANDOM
Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance; "a random choice"; "bombs fell at random"; "random movements"

RAGGED
Having an irregular outline; "text set with ragged right margins"; "herded the class into a ragged line"

QUIRKY
Informal terms; strikingly unconventional

MORTAL
A human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

MOTELY

PATCHY
Irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc.; "a patchy essay"; "patchy fog"

MOBILE
Sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents

JAGGED
Having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs"

INFIRM
Lacking firmness of will or character or purpose; "infirm of purpose; give me the daggers" - Shakespeare

FLYING
An instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"

FITFUL
Intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"

FITTLE

FADING
Weakening in force or intensity; "attenuation in the volume of the sound"

CRANKY
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

CHOPPY
Marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose"

CHANCY
Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker

CATCHY
Having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"

CASUAL
Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"

BROKEN
Not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs"

7 letters

VEERING
The act of turning aside suddenly

VARYING
Marked by diversity or difference; "the varying angles of roof slope"; "nature is infinitely variable"

VAGRANT
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

VARIOUS
Considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed"

UNSTAID

UNFIXED
Lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen

SPASMIC

UNEQUAL
Lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was unequal to the task"

SPASTIC
A person suffering from spastic paralysis

SNATCHY

MUTABLE
Capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy"

PASSING
Allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade"

SCRAPPY
Full of fighting spirit; "a scrappy admiral"

HALTING
Disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

FRAGILE
Easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

MAGGOTY
Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

DUBIOUS
Fraught with uncertainty or doubt; "they were doubtful that the cord would hold"; "it was doubtful whether she would be admitted"; "dubious about agreeing to go"

BRITTLE
Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"

AIMLESS
Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

ERRATIC
Likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster

WAYWARD
Resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"

FLIGHTY
Guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls"

8 letters

FREAKISH
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

WOBBLING
(of sound) fluctuating unsteadily; "a low-pitched wobbling sound"

WAVERING
Indecision in speech or action

VOLATILE
Liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"

VARIFORM
Varying in form or shape

VARIABLE
A quantity that can assume any of a set of values

UNSTAEDY

UNSTABLE
Disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions"

UNSORTED
Not categorized or sorted

UNJOINED

UNGRADED
(of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel

TICKLISH
Difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

TEMPORAL
Of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"

SHIFTING
The act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class"

RESTLESS
Worried and uneasy

RAMBLING
Of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

STRAGGLY
Growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; "straggly ivy"

SPORADIC
Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"

NOTIONAL
Being of the nature of a notion or concept; "a plan abstract and conceptional"; "to improve notional comprehension"; "a notional response to the question"

LURCHING

PLANLESS
Aimlessly drifting

PETULANT
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

HESITANT
Lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly

HEEDLESS
Marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying"

FUGITIVE
Someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice

INCHOATE
Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"

FORMLESS
Having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm"

FLITTING

FLEETING
Lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"