Word Meanings - MUTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn.

Additional info about word: MUTABLE

1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn. -- Changeable; alterable; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; inconstant; variable; fickle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MUTABLE)

• Alterable
• Variable
• mutable
• changeable
• movable
• revocable
• Fickle
• Fanciful
• fitful
• capricious
• irresolute
• vacillating
• unreliable
• veering
• shifting
• variable
• restless
• inconstant
• unstable
• Fitful
• Capricious
• fickle
• impulsive
• desultory
• fanciful
• unequal
• irregular
• Reversible
• Changeable
• exchangeable
• counterchangeable
• alterable
• discretional
• wavering
• unsteady

Related words: (words related to MUTABLE)

• VACILLATING
  Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• 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;
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• MUTABLE
  1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn.
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• SHIFT
  divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a 1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. To
• IMPULSIVELY
  In an impulsive manner.
• REVOCABLE
  Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
• VACILLATION
  1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. His vacillations, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. Jer. Taylor.
• UNEQUALNESS
  The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.
• REVERSIBLE
  1. Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence. 2. Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics. Reversible lock, a lock
• SHIFTER
  An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. (more info)
• WAVERINGLY
  In a wavering manner.
• WAVERINGNESS
  The quality or state of wavering.
• 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;
• IMPULSIVENESS
  The quality of being impulsive.
• SHIFTLESS
  Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless
• VACILLATE
  1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley. 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. Syn. -- See Fluctuate.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• CRESTLESS
  Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak.
• UNSHIFTABLE
  1. That may 2. Shiftless; helpless.
• SCENESHIFTER
  One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.
• COMMUTABLE
  Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.
• UNMUTABLE
  Immutable.