mutable

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
mutable
    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}, {changeable}] [ant:
           {changeless}, {immutable}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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