Fickle
['fɪk(ə)l] or ['fɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; 'fickle friends'; 'a flirt's volatile affections' .
Typist: Shelby--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Wavering, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, variable, vacillating, volatile, changeable, fitful, irresolute, unsettled, capricious, not steady, not steadfast, like a weather-cock.
Checker: Phyllis
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fanciful, fitful, capricious, irresolute, changeable, vacillating, mutable,unreliable, veering, shifting, variable, restless, inconstant, unstable
ANT:Sober, orderly, reliable, well-regulated, calculable, trustworthy, steady,uniform
Edited by Bessie
Definition
adj. inconstant: changeable.—n. Fick′leness.
Editor: Tod
Examples
- I would suppose him,Oh, how gladly would I suppose him, only fickle, very, very fickle. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- And have you grown so fickle that you don't like your own taste, Pa dear? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A man of strong will, in the popular usage of the words, is a man who is neither fickle nor half-hearted in achieving chosen ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Every one is not so fickle as you are, cried Crispin sharply. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This was inevitable when men came to imitate the birds, and trust themselves to the fickle currents of the air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Editor: Tod