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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments;
- Example: "fickle friends"
- Example: "a flirt's volatile affections"
[syn: fickle, volatile]

2. liable to sudden unpredictable change;
- Example: "erratic behavior"
- Example: "fickle weather"
- Example: "mercurial twists of temperament"
- Example: "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
[syn: erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fickle \Fic"kle\, a. [OE. fikel untrustworthy, deceitful, AS.
   ficol, fr. fic, gefic, fraud, deceit; cf. f[=a]cen deceit,
   OS. f?kn, OHG. feichan, Icel. feikn portent. Cf. Fidget.]
   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.
   [1913 Webster]

         They know how fickle common lovers are.  --Dryden.

   Syn: Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable;
        inconsonant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful;
        capricious; veering; shifting.
        [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fickle
    adj 1: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or
           attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile
           affections" [syn: fickle, volatile]
    2: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior";
       "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a
       quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment,
       utterly fragile the next" [syn: erratic, fickle,
       mercurial, quicksilver(a)]