Capricious vs Obvious - What's the difference?
capricious | obvious |
Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim
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Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
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As adjectives the difference between capricious and obvious
is that capricious is impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim while obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.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
* capriciouslyobvious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}