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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, stimulus |
| Synonyms: | afflatus, animus, approach, arousal, awakening, brainchild, brainstorm*, creativity, deep think, elevation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exaltation, fancy, flash*, genius, hunch, illumination, impulse, incentive, inflatus, influence, insight, motivation, motive, muse, notion, revelation, rumble, spark, spur, stimulation, thought, vision, whim |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind |
| Synonyms: | affection, air, atmosphere, attitude, aura, bent*, blues, caprice, character, color*, condition, crotchet, cue, depression, desire, disposition, doldrums, dumps, emotion, fancy, feel*, feeling, frame of mind, high spirits, humor, inclination, individuality, low spirits, melancholy, mind, personality, pleasure, propensity, response, scene, semblance, soul, spirit, strain, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, timbre, vagary, vein, whim, wish |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practical joke; frivolity |
| Synonyms: | antic, caper, caprice, escapade, fancy, fooling, frolic, gag, gambol, high jinks, horseplay, hotfoot, lark, levity, lightness, monkeyshines, play, put-on, rib, rollick, roughhouse, roughhousing, rowdiness, shenanigans, shine*, skylarking, spoof, sport, tomfoolery, trick, whim |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quirk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | oddity of personality, way of doing something |
| Synonyms: | aberration, caprice, characteristic, conceit, crotchet, eccentricity, equivocation, fancy, fetish, foible, habit, humor, idiosyncrasy, idée fixe, irregularity, kink, knack, mannerism, peculiarity, quibble, singularity, subterfuge, trait, turn, twist, vagary, whim, whimsy |
| Main Entry: | rage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something in vogue; popular notion |
| Synonyms: | caprice, chic, conceit, craze, crotchet, cry, dernier cri, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fashion, freak, furor, happening, hot spot, in, in-spot, in-thing, last word, latest, latest thing, latest wrinkle, mania, mode, newest wrinkle, now*, passion, style, thing*, up to the minute, vagary, whim |
| Notes: | ire suggests greater intensity than anger, rage suggests loss of self-control, and fury is destructive rage verging on madness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vagary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caprice |
| Synonyms: | crotchet, fancy, fool notion, humor, idea, impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, notion, quirk, whim, whimsy |
| Main Entry: | whimsy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | notion |
| Synonyms: | caprice, idea, quality, thought, vagary, whim |
| Main Entry: | wish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, choice, disposition, hankering, hope, hunger, inclination, intention, invocation, itch, liking, longing, pleasure, prayer, preference, request, thirst, urge, want, whim, will, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | snap decision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | snap judgment |
| Synonyms: | caprice, impulse, inclination, notion, sudden inclination, whim |
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