Inconstant

3 definitions found

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

  Inconstant \In*con"stant\, a. [L. inconstans: cf. F. inconstant.
     See {In-} not, and {Constant}.]
     Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of
     character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose,
     etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; --
     said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or


     friendship. "The inconstant moon." --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           While we, inquiring phantoms of a day,
           Inconstant as the shadows we survey!     --Boyse.
  
     Syn: Mutable; fickle; volatile; unsteady; unstable;
          changeable; variable; wavering; fluctuating.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inconstant
       adj : likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent
             reason; variable; "inconstant affections"; "an
             inconstant lover"; "swear not by...the inconstant
             moon"- Shakespeare [ant: {constant}]

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

  200 Moby Thesaurus words for "inconstant":
     adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, brittle, broken,
     capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, changing,
     choppy, coquettish, corruptible, deciduous, derelict, desultory,
     deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disaffected,
     disconnected, discontinuous, disloyal, disorderly, disregardful,
     divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, dying,
     eccentric, elusive, ephemeral, erose, erratic, evanescent, faddish,
     fading, faithless, false, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, fleeting,
     flickering, flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuating,
     fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, freakish, fugacious,
     fugitive, giddy, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite,
     immethodical, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inattentive,
     inconsistent, indecisive, indefinite, infirm, inobservant,
     insubstantial, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute,
     irresponsible, jagged, jerky, light, lubricious, lurching, mazy,
     mercurial, momentary, moody, mortal, motley, mutable, negligent,
     nonadherent, noncompliant, nonconforming, nonconformist,
     nondurable, nonobservant, nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonuniform,
     not true to, of bad faith, passing, patchy, perishable,
     pluralistic, protean, quicksilver, ragged, rambling, recreant,
     restless, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, shapeless,
     shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, skittish, snatchy,
     spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic,
     spotty, staggering, temperamental, temporal, temporary, ticklish,
     toying, transient, transitive, transitory, trothless,
     unaccountable, uncertain, uncompliant, unconforming, uncontrolled,
     undependable, undisciplined, undurable, unenduring, unequable,
     unequal, uneven, unfaithful, unfixed, unloyal, unmethodical,
     unmetrical, unobservant, unorthodox, unpredictable, unregular,
     unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable,
     unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic,
     untrue, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, vague, variable,
     variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, versatile,
     vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton,
     wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling,
     wobbly