Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Capable of being changed.
- Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
- The weather is very changeable today; it can be bright sunshine, cloudy, windy and rainy in the same half-hour.
Translations
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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