Meaning of Vagary | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
2. Something vague.
3. An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.

Equivalents

Examples

“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 climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil, continually oozing up beneath the pressure of the strata above it.”

“This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.”

“These systems learn⟳ the vagaries of language by analyzing enormous amounts of text, including thousands of books, Wikipedia entries and other online documents.”

“to speak⟳ in vagaries”

“And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.”

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