Changeable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Changeable \Change"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. changeable.]
     1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable;
        variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or


        under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.
  
     Syn: Mutable; alterable; variable; inconstant; fitful;
          vacillating; capricious; fickle; unstable; unsteady;
          unsettled; wavering; erratic; giddy; volatile.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  changeable
       adj 1: capable of or tending to change in form or quality or
              nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of
              fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable
              foreign policy" [syn: {mutable}] [ant: {immutable}]
       2: such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency
          to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods";
          "changeable prices" [syn: {changeful}] [ant: {unchangeable}]
       3: subject to change; "a changeable climate"; "the weather is
          uncertain"; "unsettled weather with rain and hail and
          sunshine coming one right after the other" [syn: {uncertain},
           {unsettled}]
       4: varying in color when seen in different lights or from
          different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or
          shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and
          iridescent" [syn: {chatoyant}, {iridescent}, {shot}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  261 Moby Thesaurus words for "changeable":
     able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, adrift, afloat, agnostic,
     alterable, alterative, altered, alternating, ambiguous,
     ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, at loose ends, better, bland,
     brittle, capricious, chancy, changed, changeful, changing,
     checkered, choppy, commutable, commutative, converted, convertible,
     coquettish, corruptible, deciduous, degenerate, desultory,
     deviable, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dicey,
     different, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified,
     diversiform, dizzy, double-minded, doubting, dubious, dying,
     eccentric, ephemeral, equal, equalizing, equivalent, equivocal,
     erose, erratic, evanescent, even, ever-changing, exchanged,
     faddish, fading, fast and loose, fence-sitting, fence-straddling,
     fickle, fitful, fleeting, flexible, flickering, flighty,
     flirtatious, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, fly-by-night, flying,
     fragile, frail, freakish, fugacious, fugitive, giddy,
     give-and-take, halfhearted, hesitant, hesitating, impermanent,
     impetuous, impressionable, improved, impulsive, incalculable,
     inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indemonstrable, infirm,
     infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, insubstantial,
     interchangeable, interchanged, irregular, irresolute, irresolved,
     irresponsible, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, labile, light,
     malleable, many-sided, mazy, mercurial, metamorphic, metamorphosed,
     metastasized, milk-and-water, milky, mobile, modifiable, modified,
     momentary, moody, mortal, motley, movable, mugwumpian, mugwumpish,
     mushy, mutable, mutant, mutual, neutral, nonconformist, nondurable,
     nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonuniform, of two minds, passing,
     perishable, permutable, plastic, pliant, pluralistic, polysemous,
     protean, proteiform, qualified, quicksilver, ragged, rambling,
     rebuilt, reciprocal, reciprocating, reciprocative, reformed,
     renewed, resilient, restless, retaliatory, returnable, revived,
     revolutionary, rough, roving, rubbery, scatterbrained, shapeless,
     shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, skeptical, skittish,
     spasmodic, spineless, sporadic, standard, subversive, supple,
     swapped, switched, tasteless, temporal, temporary, touch-and-go,
     toying, traded, transformable, transformed, transient, transitive,
     transitory, translated, transmuted, transposed, unaccountable,
     uncertain, unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undecided,
     undependable, undetermined, undisciplined, undivinable, undurable,
     unenduring, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed, unforeseeable,
     unmitigated, unorthodox, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable,
     unreliable, unresolved, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable,
     unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure,
     unsystematic, ununiform, unverifiable, vacillating, vagrant, vapid,
     variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, versatile,
     vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton,
     watery, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy,
     worse