Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
taking on different forms;
- Example: "eyes...of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Protean \Pro"te*an\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus. "
Protean transformations." --Cudworth.
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2. Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or
forms; as, an am[oe]ba is a protean animalcule.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
protean
adj 1: taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling
protean grey which is never twice the same"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "protean":
able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, allotropic, alterable,
alterative, changeable, changeful, checkered, diversiform,
ever-changing, flexible, fluid, heteromorphic, heteromorphous,
impermanent, kaleidoscopic, labile, malleable, manifold,
many-sided, metamorphic, metamorphotic, mobile, modifiable,
movable, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiphase, multiple,
multiplex, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plastic, polymorphic,
polymorphous, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, supple, transient,
transitory, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable