whimsical
WIM-zih-kuladjMeaning playfully odd or fanciful; following sudden fancies
Memory hook WHIM-sical: follows every playful WHIM. On a whim, Nell plants daisies in an old boot, hangs teacups in a tree and gives her cat a party hat. Her garden is whimsical.
The café’s whimsical chairs were shaped like giant teacups.
In context Nothing in the yard was ordinary: the birdbath was a boot, the gate was painted with dancing frogs and the scarecrow wore sunglasses; it was the most whimsical yard on the block.
Similar playful, quirky, fanciful, fantastical
Opposite serious, sober, conventional
From whimsy, a playful or odd notion, related to whim.