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adjective

Changeable adj.

Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.

Synonyms: Mutable; alterable; variable; inconstant; fitful; vacillating; capricious; fickle; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; erratic; giddy; volatile.

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Etymology of 'Changeable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Changeable" Quotes from Famous Books

... laughing with merry softness, her whole person so alert and elastic with exuberant life and enjoyment, that grandmamma was as happy in watching her as if she had been her own daughter, and stroked down the broad flounces of her changeable silk, and admired her black lace, as if she felt the whole family exalted by ...

— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge

... that war experience he went through, Perk—they say once a man was gassed pretty badly over there, he'd always prove to be a queer fish—changeable, nervous and apt to do all manner ...

— Eagles of the Sky - With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes • Ambrose Newcomb

... uncertain — Writing is all a lottery — I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age — I could mention particulars, and name names; but don't choose it — The taste of the town is so changeable. Then there have been so many letters upon travels lately published — What between Smollett's, Sharp's, Derrick's, Thicknesse's, Baltimore's, and Baretti's, together with Shandy's Sentimental Travels, the public seems to be cloyed with that kind of entertainment — Nevertheless, ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... dangerous mare, Judge, and she's as delicate and changeable as a girl. I'd hate to leave ...

— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea • Langdon Mitchell

... the grass in front of his moccasins—tiny dried blades of yellow grass, and underneath them he saw the dark traceries of their shadows. Each had its own little shadow—its soul—its changeable thing—its other life—just as he himself was cut blue-black beside himself on the sandstone. There were millions of these grass-blades, and each one shivered in the wind, maundering to itself in the chorus, which made the prairie sigh, and all for fear of a big ...

— The Way of an Indian • Frederic Remington

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