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say it: VAY-gur-ee
vagary is a noun meaning "an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.)". It carries one recorded sense.
an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.)
“the vagaries of the weather”
“his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market”
“he has dealt with human vagaries for many years”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vagary come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.