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vagary 音标拼音: [v'egɚi] n. 奇特,好奇,奇特行为,奇想 奇特,好奇,奇特行为,奇想 vagary n 1: an unexpected and inexplicable change in something ( in a situation or a person' s behavior, etc.); " the vagaries of the weather"; " his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market"; " he has dealt with human vagaries for many years" Vagary \ Va* ga" ry\ ( v[. a]* g[= a]" r[ y^] or v[ a^] g"[. a]* r[- e]), n.; pl. { Vagaries} ( v[. a]* g[= a]" r[ i^] z or v[ a^] g"[. a]* r[- e] z). [ L. vagari to stroll about. See { Vague}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. A wandering or strolling. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose. " The vagaries of a child." -- Spectator. [ 1913 Webster] They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 54 Moby Thesaurus words for " vagary": aberration, bee, boutade, brainstorm, capriccio, caprice, circuitousness, conceit, crank, craze, crazy idea, crosswiseness, crotchet, daydream, declination, deflection, deflexure, deviance, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, divagation, divergence, dream, excursion, fad, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, flimflam, fool notion, freak, freakish inspiration, harebrained idea, humor, indirection, indirectness, kink, maggot, megrim, nonconformity, notion, obliqueness, obliquity, passing fancy, quirk, skewness, squint, toy, transverseness, whim, whim- wham, whimsy
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