Something slender is slight, or skinny. A young colt is slender compared to the full grown horse it will grow into. Slender can be used in both positive and negative ways. If someone tells you you have a slender figure, you’ll probably be happy, unless you’re going for muscle-mass.

A slender person is attractively thin and graceful. She was slender, with delicate wrists and ankles. a tall, slender figure in a straw hat.

As its official name reveals, 😏 Smirking Face represents the facial expression of a smirk. 😏 Smirking Face especially implies, however, flirtation and sexual innuendo.

For example, “lazy” will always have a negative connotation; it will give us a very negative idea of the person it’s being used to describe. So lazy is always seen as a very bad thing. However, idle can be used in other contexts, still to mean something or someone doesn’t work, but without the negative judgement.

The adjectives childish and childlike both refer to the characteristics of a child—but generally not to the same characteristics. Put another way, childish usually has negative connotations while childlike usually has positive connotations.

Frequently Asked Questions About capricious Some common synonyms of capricious are fickle, inconstant, mercurial, and unstable.

: a person who casts off or rejects someone previously accepted as a lover : one who jilts (see jilt entry 1) a lover.

Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.

Capricious in a Sentence 🔉

1. Because of his capricious nature, Jeremy found it hard to keep a steady job.
2. Since he started taking the medication, Henry has been less capricious.
3. Even though the couple wanted to get married outside, they knew their ceremony depended on the capricious weather.