Capricious vs Anger - What's the difference?
capricious | anger |
Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim
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A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
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, title= (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
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, passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;
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To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
To become angry.
As an adjective capricious
is impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.As a noun anger is
a strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.As a verb anger is
to cause such a feeling of antagonism.capricious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I almost died in a capricious winter storm.
- Stringent rulers are unlikely to act capriciously .
- The Mayor claimed that the action was reasonable, but in reality the action was arbitrary and capricious in nature.
Usage notes
* Capricious can describe both a person and the decisions they make.Synonyms
* whimsical * arbitraryAntonyms
* conscientious * rigorousDerived terms
* capriciouslyanger
English
(wikipedia anger)Noun
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
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- I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Synonyms
* (strong feeling of antagonism) * See alsoDerived terms
() * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in angerVerb
(en verb)- Don't anger me.
- You anger too easily.
