vagary
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vagary
- /vəˈɡɛɚ.i/
- /ˈveɪɡəɹi/
Where it comes from
From Italian vagare (“wander”) and/or its source Latin vagārī (“to wander”), from Latin vagus (“wandering”). Later apparently reinterpreted in English as vague + -ery but without changing the spelling. By surface analysis, Latin vag(us) + -ary.
noun vagaries
- An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action. It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate c
- Something vague. to speak in vagaries
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An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.
Similar: boutade, caprice, capriccio, conceit, crotchet, delirament, fancy, fangle, figary, flisk, freak, kink
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noun An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action
| Español | extravagancia, rareza |
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| Português | extravagância |
| Français | extravagance |
| Deutsch | Unwägbarkeit |
| Ελληνικά | ιδιοτροπία idiotropía |
| Русский | вы́ходка výxodka |
noun something vague
| Русский | зага́дка zagádka |
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