Term Gallery logo

Meanings of whim in English

Portuguese
caprichoso
Spanish
noción

An odd or fanciful or capricious idea.

caprichoso
Portuguese
desejo
Catalan
caprici
Spanish
impulso

A sudden desire.

desejo

Mining device.

Related terms
Usage of whim in English
1
His choice of the Netherlands, however, was not taken on a whim.
The Guardian
2
Government controlled economic activity became an unemployment mop, activated on ministerial whim.
The Irish Times
3
Money could no longer be printed at will or on a whim.
The Guardian
4
Ideally he did; but it was just a fleeting expression or whim.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
5
The idle whim of a sardonic old man; nothing more than that.
The Adventures of Kathlyn
6
The whole place proclaimed itself to be the whim of a despot.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
7
To Christophe the remark was nothing but the whim of a moment.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
8
This was no mere passing whim on the part of the emperor.
Legends of the Rhine
9
I don't like the idea of things being changed by a whim.
Midnight at the well of souls
10
This tobacco had been a whim of mine in more prosperous times.
Ask the Dust
11
Then a whim seized her, and she sat up, grave and eager.
The History of David Grieve
12
I traveled the world to follow my interests on the slightest whim.
I shot you babe
13
He will be wealthy, and in a position to gratify any whim.
The Upton Letters
14
Lots of people have discovered their hidden gifts by following a whim.
The Irish Times
15
It was reopened on a Tudor whim; it closes on Cromwell's command.
The King’s Curse
16
He rushed to the whim-room, but found the boy still sleeping soundly.
Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day
About this term
More collocations
Translations for whim
Whim through the time
Whim across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common