WHIM meaning: Sudden, impulsive change or decision

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word whim:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

whim: Merriam-Webster.com
whim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
whim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
whim: Collins English Dictionary
whim: Vocabulary.com
Whim, whim: Wordnik
whim: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
WHIM, whim: Wiktionary
whim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
whim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
whim: Infoplease Dictionary
whim: Dictionary.com
whim: Online Etymology Dictionary
whim: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
The Whim, WHIM (Rhode Island), WHIM, Whim (mining), Whim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Whim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
whim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
whim: Rhymezone
whim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
whim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
whim: Free Dictionary
whim: Mnemonic Dictionary
whim: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
whim: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

whim: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

whim: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

WHIM: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

whim: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
whim: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.
▸ noun:  (mining) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes
▸ verb:  (rare, intransitive) To be seized with a whim; to be capricious.
▸ noun:  A bird, the Eurasian wigeon.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) Initialism of warm-hot intergalactic medium. [(astronomy) A sparse, warm-to-hot (105 to 107 K) plasma that cosmologists believe to exist in the spaces between galaxies and to contain 40–50% of the baryons in the universe at the current epoch.]

Similar:

whimsey, whimsy, vagary, impulse, caprice, notion, conceit, impulsion, inspiration, idea, more...

Opposite:

purpose, intention, goal, aim

Types:

passing fancy, whim of the moment, whim of the hour, whim of the day, whim of the night, more...

Phrases:

whim wham, whim whams, whim gin, whim shaft, on a whim, more...

Adjectives:

mere, personal, own, sudden, slightest, individual, strange, arbitrary, idle, foolish, childish

Colors:

lavender, periwinkle, mint, coral, peach, aqua, blush, lilac, teal, mauve

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