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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.