Word Meanings - FICKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled;
Additional info about word: FICKLE
Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable; inconsonant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful; capricious; veering; shifting. (more info) fic, gefic, fraud, deceit; cf. facen deceit, OS. f, OHG. feichan,
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FICKLE)
- Capricious
- Wayward
- uncertain
- fanciful
- freakish
- fitful
- fickle
- changeful
- whimsical
- humorsome
- inconstant
- crotchety
- Fitful
- unstable
- restless
- mutable
- impulsive
- desultory
- unequal
- irregular
- Mobile
- Movable
- sensitive
- variable
- ductile
- Variable
- Changeable
- capricious
- wavering
- unsteady
- shifting
Related words: (words related to FICKLE)
- SENSITIVE
1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the - IRREGULARITY
The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular. - UNEQUALABLE
Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle. - CAPRICIOUS
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; - CHANGEFUL
Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n. - WAVERER
One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak. - MOVABLE
1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable - MUTABLE
1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn. - SHIFT
divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a 1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. To - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - MOBILE
Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement. (more info) 1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile." Skelton. 2. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; - IMPULSIVELY
In an impulsive manner. - UNEQUALNESS
The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor. - DUCTILE
1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold - SHIFTER
An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. (more info) - UNCERTAINLY
In an uncertain manner. - WAVERINGLY
In a wavering manner. - HUMORSOMENESS
Quality of being humorsome. - WAVERINGNESS
The quality or state of wavering. - FICKLE
Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; - IRREMOVABLE
Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv. - AUTOMOBILE
An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, - AWAYWARD
Turned away; away. Chaucer. - CRESTLESS
Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak. - UNSHIFTABLE
1. That may 2. Shiftless; helpless. - SCENESHIFTER
One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.