Word Meanings - UNCONSTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not constant; inconstant; fickle; changeable. Shak. -- Un*con"stant*ly, adv. -- Un*con"stant*ness, n.

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• STANT; STONT
  Stands. Chaucer.
• CONSTANTIA
  A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.
• 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;
• CONSTANT
  Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, forc, law, etc. 4. Consistent; logical. Shak. Syn. -- Fixed; steadfast; unchanging; permanent; unalterable; immutable; perpetual; continual; resolute; firm; unshaken; determined. -- Constant,
• CHANGEABLE
  1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable;
• INCONSTANTLY
  In an inconstant manner.
• CHANGEABLENESS
  The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
• CONSTANTLY
  With constancy; steadily; continually; perseveringly; without cessation; uniformly. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Acts. xii. 15.
• INCONSTANT
  Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship.
• FICKLENESS
  The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy. Shak.
• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• INSTANT
  upon, to press upon; pref. in- in, on + stare to stand: cf. F. in. 1. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort
• DISTANT
  stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated;
• INSUBSTANTIAL
  Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." Shak.
• SUPERSUBSTANTIAL
  More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.
• SUBSTANTIVAL
  Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive. -- Sub`stan*ti"val*ly, adv.
• CIRCUMSTANTIALITY
  The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.
• TRANSUBSTANTIATION
  The doctrine held by Roman Catholics, that the bread and wine in the Mass is converted into the body and blood of Christ; -- distinguished from consubstantiation, and impanation. (more info) 1. A change into another substance.
• SUBSTANTIVENESS
  The quality or state of being substantive.
• EQUIDISTANT
  Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing. -- E`qui*dis"tant*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
• SUBSTANTIATION
  The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.
• INSUBSTANTIALITY
  Unsubstantiality; unreality.
• INSTANTLY
  1. Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately. Macaulay. 2. With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. "They besought him instantly." Luke vii. 4. Syn. -- Directly; immediately; at once. See Directly.
• NON OBSTANTE
  A clause in old English statutes and letters patent, importing a license from the crown to do a thing notwithstanding any statute to the contrary. This dispensing power was abolished by the Bill of Rights. In this very reign the practice
• COINSTANTANEOUS
  Happening at the same instant. C. Darwin.
• CONSUBSTANTIALLY
  In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.
• CIRCUMSTANTIAL
  1. Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. Paley. 2. Incidental; relating to, but not essential. We must therefore distinguish
• DISTANTIAL
  Distant. More distantial from the eye. W. Montagu.