Meanings
- pluralplural onlyCasual pants or trousers, usually for women, with the bottom hem reaching to below the knee but above the ankle (at midcalf, more or less); usually lightweight and summery.
I see women wearing capri pants nearly every day; they're not as bad as cargo capris, but they aren't the capri pants of Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, either. Those 1960s capri pants were fitted.
2012, Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 90Synonyms: clamdiggers
Synonyms & antonyms
nounCasual pants or trousers, usually for women, with the bottom hem reaching to below the knee but above the ankle (at midcalf, more or less); usually lightweight and summery.
Origin
Part of the Capri Collection by fashion designer Sonja de Lennart (1920–), named after her family's preferred holiday destination, the Italian island of Capri.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan pantalons capri
- pantalons capricasual pants for women
Finnish caprihousut
- caprihousutcasual pants for women
French corsaire, pantacourt
- corsairecasual pants for women
- pantacourtcasual pants for women
- capricasual pants for women
German Caprihose, Fischerhose
- Caprihosecasual pants for women
- Fischerhosecasual pants for women
Hungarian halásznadrág
- halásznadrágcasual pants for women
Polish spodnie capri
- spodnie capricasual pants for women
Portuguese corsários
- corsárioscasual pants for women
Turkish kapri pantolon
- kapri pantoloncasual pants for women
Vietnamese quần lửng
- quần lửngcasual pants for women
Cite this entry
capri pants. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capri%20pants
“capri pants.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capri%20pants. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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