Crossword-Solution: WHIMSY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whimsy | n. | A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. |
| Whimsy | n. | A whim. |
| Whimsy | n. | A whimsey. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “WHIMSY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Quaint humor | 1 answer |
| Playful imagination combined with eccentric behaviour | 1 answer |
| Impulsive action | 1 answer |
| Gentle fantasy | 1 answer |
| Fanciful touch | 1 answer |
| Fanciful quality | 1 answer |
| Fanciful humour | 1 answer |
| Element of Dr. Seuss' work | 1 answer |
| Capricious nature | 1 answer |
| Anything odd or fanciful | 1 answer |
| capricious idea | 2 answers |
| Playful humor | 2 answers |
| Fanciful ideas | 3 answers |
| fancifulness | 3 answers |
| capriccio | 5 answers |
| Fanciful notion | 6 answers |
| Fanciful idea | 6 answers |
| Fey | 19 answers |
| Flight of fancy | 21 answers |
| Quirk | 30 answers |
| Fad | 31 answers |
| vagary | 35 answers |
| capriciousness | 41 answers |
| Notion | 54 answers |
| Quaint | 56 answers |
| Caper | 61 answers |
| fantasy | 77 answers |
| Caprice | 84 answers |
| Fancy | 122 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WHIMSY (5)
Smith was buried -- up soared his sales; lured you his books in every store; Exquisite, whimsy, heart-wrung tales; men devoured them and craved for more.
This revived that notion that the infection was all in the air, that there was no such thing as contagion from the sick people to the sound; and so strongly did this whimsy prevail among people that they ran all together promiscuously, sick and well.
And with the whimsy in his soul uppermost, Peter reflected, as he turned back for a microscopic examination of Henry Anderson’s coat and the contents of its pockets, that there was one bird above all others which made him think of Linda; but he could not at the moment feather Katherine O’Donovan.
PHOTO - DRUMSTICK CROWN ROAST - SPRING DRUMSTICK CROWN ROAST ADDS WHIMSY TO EASTER FEAST The symbols of Easter are happy ones, full of the joy of the day$spring flowers and spring greens, new clothes, cuddly animals and their chocolate look-alikes, jelly beans, fancy breads and cakes, colored eggs and Easter egg hunts.
Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.
Quotes with WHIMSY (3)
Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.
I made a sorry face in response to such strong insistence, but I couldn’t believe him. Fantasies were exactly that..…..fantasies. Whimsy. Wishes. Mere castles in the sky without foundation or substance. Dreams didn’t come true. To believe so would be to believe falsely, to surrender to madness, to give in to an unreliable hope that would crush me once again as it always, always did!
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1978–2020).