whimsic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] Dutch whirling, whimsic chair, / Turning more swift than unrestrained air; […]"
- "Even this Spark five terms at least, before / H’ has taken a degree; and full Ten more / Before he has deserv’d it; shall adore / Those Ancient Sots, whose whimsick brain alone / Found out Dame Nature’s ways before unknown, / Whereby she acted, or at least she might have done."
- "My Phyllis, now, capricious maid, / And whimsic as the fickle breeze, / Within an hour has oft betrayed / A score of personalities."
- "We strolled through quaintly crooked little side streets, so rich in casual and whimsic architecture, and drove over the brown hills, where rabbits occasionally dashed to cover, and the impudent crow patrolled the horizon."
- "Whimsic fantasy, grub fact, pure senseless music—none in itself would do; to embody all and rise above each, in a work neither longfaced nor idiotly grinning, but adventuresome, passionately humored, merry with the pain of insight, wise and smiling in the terror of life—that was my calm ambition."
- "Harry Potter can now feel at home in California, shopping in Whimsic Alley, a re-creation of the mystical London Street where the famous wizard buys his school supplies."
Etymology
From whimsy + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more whimsic (comparative)
most whimsic (superlative)