Mutable

3 definitions found

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

  Mutable \Mu"ta*ble\, a. [L. mutabilis, fr. mutare to change. See
     {Move}.]
     1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in
        form, qualities, or nature.
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              Things of the most accidental and mutable nature.
                                                    --South.
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     2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most
        mutable wishes." --Byron.
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     Syn: Changeable; alterable; unstable; unsteady; unsettled;
          wavering; inconstant; variable; fickle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mutable
       adj : 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: {changeable}] [ant: {immutable}]

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

  133 Moby Thesaurus words for "mutable":
     able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative,
     ambitendent, ambivalent, at loose ends, brittle, capricious,
     changeable, changeful, changing, checkered, choppy, corruptible,
     deciduous, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disorderly,
     divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, double-minded,
     dubious, dying, ephemeral, erose, erratic, evanescent,
     ever-changing, fading, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle,
     fleeting, flexible, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, fly-by-night,
     flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent,
     impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive,
     infirm of purpose, insubstantial, irregular, irresolute,
     irresolved, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, lubricious, malleable,
     many-sided, mercurial, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, momentary,
     mortal, motley, movable, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, nonconformist,
     nondurable, nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonuniform, of two minds,
     passing, perishable, permutable, plastic, pluralistic, protean,
     proteiform, ragged, resilient, rough, rubbery, shifty,
     shilly-shally, short-lived, slippery, spasmodic, sporadic,
     subject to death, supple, swaying, swinging, temperamental,
     temporal, temporary, ticklish, transient, transitive, transitory,
     uncertain, undecided, undetermined, undurable, unenduring,
     unequable, unequal, uneven, unorthodox, unresolved, unsettled,
     unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, variable,
     variegated, variform, various, varying, volatile, wavering