English Dictionary

vagary

/vəˈɡɛɹi/

noun

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

Her vagary of changing career paths frequently confused her friends.

意味（1）

An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.

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.

意味（2）

Something vague.

to speak in vagaries

意味（3）

An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.

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