Word Meanings - CHANGEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHANGEFUL)

• Capricious
• Wayward
• uncertain
• fanciful
• freakish
• fitful
• fickle
• changeful
• whimsical
• humorsome
• inconstant
• crotchety
• Erratic
• Desultory
• aberrant
• abnormal
• flighty
• capricious

Related words: (words related to CHANGEFUL)

• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• ABNORMAL
  Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• HUMORSOMENESS
  Quality of being humorsome.
• FLIGHTY
  1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and
• FICKLE
  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. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled;
• HUMORSOMELY
  Pleasantly; humorously.
• ERRATIC
  1. Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The earth and each erratic world. Blackmore. 2. Deviating from a wise of the common
• FANCIFUL
  1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful
• WAYWARD
  Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. My wife is in a wayward mood. Shak. Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. Fairfax. Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought Keble. -- Way"ward*ly, adv. -- Way"ward*ness, n.
• CROTCHETY
  Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.
• WHIMSICALITY
  The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
• ABERRANT
  Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin. (more info) 1. Wandering; straying
• DESULTORY
  desilire, desultum, to leap down; de + salire to leap. See 1. Leaping or skipping about. I shot at it , but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White. 2. Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or
• FREAKISH
  Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness,
• WHIMSICALNESS
  The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.
• WHIMSICALLY
  In a whimsical manner; freakishly.
• ABNORMALLY
  In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin.
• AWAYWARD
  Turned away; away. Chaucer.