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Adjective: capricious  ku'prishus
  1. Changeable
    "a capricious summer breeze"
    - freakish
     
  2. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
    "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"
    - impulsive, whimsical

See also: arbitrary, caprice, capriciously, capriciousness, unpredictable

Encyclopedia: Capricious