Mutable
['mjuːtəb(ə)l] or ['mjutəbl]
Definition
(adj.) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; 'a mutable substance'; 'the mutable ways of fortune'; 'mutable weather patterns'; 'a mutable foreign policy' .
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Definition
(a.) Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.
(a.) Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Changeable, alterable, variable, ever-changing.[2]. Inconstant, unsettled, vacillating, fickle, unstable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Changeable, changeful, mobile, transient, ephemeral, inconstant, unsteadfast,fickle, fitful, undecided, restless
ANT:Unchanging, permanent, immutable, persistent, changeless, Mutation,[SeeVARIATION]
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Definition
adj. that may be changed: subject to change: inconstant.—ns. Mutabil′ity Mū′tableness state or quality of being mutable.—adv. Mū′tably.—n. Mutan′dum something to be altered:—pl. Mutan′da.—v.t. Mū′tate to change a vowel-sound by the influence of a vowel in the following syllable.—n. Mutā′tion act or process of changing a vowel through the influence of one in the next syllable—the German umlaut: change: succession.—adjs. Mū′tative Mū′tātory changing mutable.
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Examples
- How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts might be; it is mutable, cannot withstand you, if you say that it shall not. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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