Word Meanings - VARIABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity. 2. Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant;

Additional info about word: VARIABLE

1. Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity. 2. Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable. Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. Shak. His heart, I know, how variable and vain! Milton. Variable exhaust , a blast pipe with an adjustable opening. -- Variable quantity , a variable. -- Variable stars , fixed stars which vary in their brightness, usually in more or less uniform periods. Syn. -- Changeable; mutable; fickle; wavering; unsteady; versatile; inconstant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VARIABLE)

• Alterable
• Variable
• mutable
• changeable
• movable
• revocable
• Fickle
• Fanciful
• fitful
• capricious
• irresolute
• vacillating
• unreliable
• veering
• shifting
• variable
• restless
• inconstant
• unstable
• Mobile
• Movable
• sensitive
• fickle
• ductile
• Versatile
• Changeable
• unsteady
• unfixed
• varied
• many-sided
• multigenous
• manifold
• mobile
• plastic
• ready

Related words: (words related to VARIABLE)

• MANIFOLD
  1. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. civ. 24. I know your manifold transgressions. Amos v. 12. 2. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• VARIOLATION
  Inoculation with smallpox.
• VACILLATING
  Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• VARIATION
  Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc. (more info) 1. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation;
• VARIX
  A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein. Note: Varices are owing to local retardation of the venous circulation, and in some cases to relaxation of the parietes of the veins. They are very common in the superficial veins of the lower
• 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;
• VARICOSITY
  1. The quality or state of being varicose. 2. An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers.
• 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
• 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.
• VARIEGATE
  To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• 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
• VARI
  The ringtailed lemur of Madagascar. Its long tail is annulated with black and white.
• MOBILE
  Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement. (more info) 1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile." Skelton. 2. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity;
• VARIETAS
  A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.
• 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.
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• VARIORUM
  Containing notes by different persons; -- applied to a publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.
• PROPLASTIC
  Forming a mold.
• OVARITIS
  Inflammation of the ovaries.
• APLASTIC
  Not plastic or easily molded.
• STOMATOPLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
• PROTOPLASTIC
  First-formed. Howell.
• PHELLOPLASTICS
  Art of modeling in cork.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• EMPLASTIC
  Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.