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Definition of capricious : Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.

Synonyms:

madcap, change, unprompted, bizarre, hotheaded, unpredictable, flaky, outre, impetuous, freakish, fantastic, outlandish, mercurial, continue, driving, study at inconstant, off-the-wall, surprise, brainish, unstable, ticklish, fantastical, unsteady, tearaway, freaky, flakey, gonzo, temperamental

fluctuating, fitful, scatterbrained, frivolous

insipid, undecided, shrinking, changeable, inconsistent, spineless, fly-by-night, shifty, infirm, shy, unresolved, irresponsible, unwilling, undependable, double-minded, tentative, irresolute, uncertain, dillydallying, weak, watery, unsure, yellow, shilly-shally, halfhearted, erratic, hesitant, vacillating

careless, chancy, reasonless, flighty, fleeting, haphazard, ambivalent, indecisive, irregular, systemless, whimsical, motiveless, fickle, sporadic, nonsystematic, flitting, wandering, fanciful, rambling, spastic, unmethodical, volatile, wayward, random, adrift, impulsive, arbitrary

inconstant, uneven, asymmetric, variable, jerky, eccentric, desultory, unsystematic, intermittent, unrhythmical

Usage examples:

• At such times he never succeeded in remembering that she was but little more than a child, heart- free, capricious, and wilful. - "Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley", Belle K. Maniates.
• " I know he's a bit capricious and exacting at times. - "Calvary Alley", Alice Hegan Rice.
• There are amateur collectors who know more about book- binding, than even certain good workmen; but there are also others, of a capricious taste, who are rather likely to lead half- instructed workmen astray, than to put them in the proper road. - "A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two", Thomas Frognall Dibdin.