Definitions
determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
Word origin
From whimsy + -ical.
Used in a sentence
“Mr. Sherlock Holmes was leaning back in his chair after his whimsical protest, and was unfolding his morning paper in a leisurely fashion, […].”
“Her lips wavered into a smile—she had been distracted by the whimsical remembrance of the confidences she had made to him, two years earlier, in that very room.”
“Lovers of the movies may well date a new screen era from the day those whimsical pantomimers set their wholesome and humane talent at the service of the arc light and the lens.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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