Word Meanings - MUTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Additional info about word: 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. -- Changeable; alterable; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; inconstant; variable; fickle.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MUTABLE)
- Alterable
- Variable
- mutable
- changeable
- movable
- revocable
- Fickle
- Fanciful
- fitful
- capricious
- irresolute
- vacillating
- unreliable
- veering
- shifting
- variable
- restless
- inconstant
- unstable
- Fitful
- Capricious
- fickle
- impulsive
- desultory
- fanciful
- unequal
- irregular
- Reversible
- Changeable
- exchangeable
- counterchangeable
- alterable
- discretional
- wavering
- unsteady
Related words: (words related to MUTABLE)
- VACILLATING
Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv. - 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; - 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 - IMPULSIVELY
In an impulsive manner. - REVOCABLE
Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv. - VACILLATION
1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. His vacillations, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. Jer. Taylor. - UNEQUALNESS
The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor. - REVERSIBLE
1. Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence. 2. Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics. Reversible lock, a lock - 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) - WAVERINGLY
In a wavering manner. - 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; - IMPULSIVENESS
The quality of being impulsive. - SHIFTLESS
Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless - VACILLATE
1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley. 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. Syn. -- See Fluctuate. - IRREMOVABLE
Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv. - 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. - COMMUTABLE
Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately. - UNMUTABLE
Immutable.