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vagarious

[ vuh-gair-ee-uhs ]

adjective

  1. characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious:

    a vagarious foreign policy.

  2. roving; wandering:

    vagarious artists.



vagarious

/ əˈɡɛəɪə /

adjective

  1. rare.
    characterized or caused by vagaries; irregular or erratic
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Derived Forms

  • ˈdzܲ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·i·dzܲ· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of vagarious1

First recorded in 1790–1800; vagary + -ous
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It is a troubling state of affairs indeed if the vagarious interests of one federal prosecutor, acting outside of public view, can determine so much about an individual’s future.

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Bozzy's vagarious search for a wife, described in the previous volume, has succeeded, and for the moment at least he is well-behaved.

Not a memory had traversed the ground since to blur a detail, though now the adult faculties could apprehend distortion, the beautiful vagarious distortion that can live in a brain over toddling feet.

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Let me return to the thought that the dramatist, in making the theme his own, may be tempted to present a view of life not only personal but eccentric and vagarious to the point of insanity.

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With most primitive people, however, life is so vagarious and starvation so recurrent that they are not apt to retain their pets long enough to establish domesticated forms.

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