Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason;
variable;
- Example: "inconstant affections"- Example: "an inconstant lover"- Example: "swear not by...the inconstant moon"- Shakespeare
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Inconstant \In*con"stant\, a. [L. inconstans: cf. F. inconstant.
See In- not, and Constant.]
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. "The inconstant moon." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
While we, inquiring phantoms of a day,
Inconstant as the shadows we survey! --Boyse.
Syn: Mutable; fickle; volatile; unsteady; unstable;
changeable; variable; wavering; fluctuating.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
inconstant
adj 1: likely to change frequently often without apparent or
cogent reason; variable; "inconstant affections"; "an
inconstant lover"; "swear not by...the inconstant moon"-
Shakespeare [ant: constant]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
200 Moby Thesaurus words for "inconstant":
adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, brittle, broken,
capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, changing,
choppy, coquettish, corruptible, deciduous, derelict, desultory,
deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disaffected,
disconnected, discontinuous, disloyal, disorderly, disregardful,
divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, dying,
eccentric, elusive, ephemeral, erose, erratic, evanescent, faddish,
fading, faithless, false, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, fleeting,
flickering, flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuating,
fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, freakish, fugacious,
fugitive, giddy, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite,
immethodical, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inattentive,
inconsistent, indecisive, indefinite, infirm, inobservant,
insubstantial, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute,
irresponsible, jagged, jerky, light, lubricious, lurching, mazy,
mercurial, momentary, moody, mortal, motley, mutable, negligent,
nonadherent, noncompliant, nonconforming, nonconformist,
nondurable, nonobservant, nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonuniform,
not true to, of bad faith, passing, patchy, perishable,
pluralistic, protean, quicksilver, ragged, rambling, recreant,
restless, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, shapeless,
shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, skittish, snatchy,
spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic,
spotty, staggering, temperamental, temporal, temporary, ticklish,
toying, transient, transitive, transitory, trothless,
unaccountable, uncertain, uncompliant, unconforming, uncontrolled,
undependable, undisciplined, undurable, unenduring, unequable,
unequal, uneven, unfaithful, unfixed, unloyal, unmethodical,
unmetrical, unobservant, unorthodox, unpredictable, unregular,
unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable,
unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic,
untrue, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, vague, variable,
variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, versatile,
vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton,
wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling,
wobbly