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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]