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[syn: mutable, changeable]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mutable \Mu"ta*ble\, a. [L. mutabilis, fr. mutare to change. See
Move.]
1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in
form, qualities, or nature.
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Things of the most accidental and mutable nature.
--South.
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2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most
mutable wishes." --Byron.
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Syn: Changeable; alterable; unstable; unsteady; unsettled;
wavering; inconstant; variable; fickle.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mutable
adj 1: 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" [syn: mutable, changeable] [ant:
changeless, immutable]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "mutable":
able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative,
ambitendent, ambivalent, at loose ends, brittle, capricious,
changeable, changeful, changing, checkered, choppy, corruptible,
deciduous, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disorderly,
divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, double-minded,
dubious, dying, ephemeral, erose, erratic, evanescent,
ever-changing, fading, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle,
fleeting, flexible, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, fly-by-night,
flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent,
impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive,
infirm of purpose, insubstantial, irregular, irresolute,
irresolved, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, lubricious, malleable,
many-sided, mercurial, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, momentary,
mortal, motley, movable, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, nonconformist,
nondurable, nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonuniform, of two minds,
passing, perishable, permutable, plastic, pluralistic, protean,
proteiform, ragged, resilient, rough, rubbery, shifty,
shilly-shally, short-lived, slippery, spasmodic, sporadic,
subject to death, supple, swaying, swinging, temperamental,
temporal, temporary, ticklish, transient, transitive, transitory,
uncertain, undecided, undetermined, undurable, unenduring,
unequable, unequal, uneven, unorthodox, unresolved, unsettled,
unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, variable,
variegated, variform, various, varying, volatile, wavering