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| Main Entry: |
changeable
 [cheyn-juh-buhl] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | erratic |
| Synonyms: | agitated, capricious, changeful, commutative, convertible, fickle, fitful, flighty, fluctuating, fluid, impulsive, inconstant, indecisive, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kaleidoscopic, mercurial, mobile, movable, mutable, permutable, protean, restless, reversible, revocable, shifting, skittish, spasmodic, transformable, transitional, uncertain, unpredictable, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, variant, varying, versatile, volatile, wavering, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | certain, changeless, constant, fixed, lasting, reliable, stable, steady, sure, unchangeable, undeviating |
| Main Entry: | adjustable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alterable |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, adaptable, changeable, conformable, flexible, malleable, modifiable, pliable, tractable |
| Main Entry: | dizzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flighty, scatterbrained |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, crazy, empty-headed, fatuous, feather-brained, fickle, foolish, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, heady, inane, light-headed, silly, skittish, unstable |
| Antonyms: | clear-thinking, sensible, smart |
Example Sentences
- The durability and breathability of cotton make our vest a great choice for layering when traveling in changeable conditions.
- Yet excessive piety fits about as well as anything else here, since the film's tone is so changeable.
- Some of the logistical details are changeable in writing groups and not all groups must work the same way.
| Main Entry: | erratic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpredictable; wandering |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bizarre, capricious, changeable, desultory, devious, dicey, directionless, dubious, eccentric, fitful, flaky*, fluctuant, idiosyncratic, iffy, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, meandering, mercurial, nomadic, oddball, peculiar, planetary, rambling, roving, shifting, spasmodic, strange, stray, uncertain, undirected, unnatural, unreliable, unstable, unusual, vagarious, variable, volatile, wayward, weird, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | certain, consistent, definite, dependable, predictable, regular, reliable, steady, sure, unchanging |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | faithless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disloyal |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, changeful, cheating, deceitful, dishonest, double-crossing, double-dealing, doubting, dubious, false, fickle, fluctuating, inconstant, perfidious, recreant, skeptical, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced, two-timing, unbelieving, unconverted, unfaithful, unloyal, unreliable, unstable, untrue, untrustworthy, untruthful, wavering |
| Antonyms: | believing, constant, faithful, loyal, reliable, true |
| Main Entry: | fickle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vacillating, blowing hot and cold |
| Synonyms: | arbitrary, capricious, changeable, cheating, coquettish, double-crossing, faithless, fitful, flighty, frivolous, inconstant, irresolute, lubricious, mercurial, mutable, quicksilver, sneaking, temperamental, ticklish, two-timing, unfaithful, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady, untrue, variable, volatile, whimsical, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | aware, cognizant, constant, faithful, reliable, stable, steady |
| Main Entry: | fitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irregular, sporadic |
| Synonyms: | bits and pieces, broken, capricious, catchy*, changeable, desultory, disturbed, erratic, flickering, fluctuating, haphazard, herky-jerky, hit-or-miss, impulsive, inconstant, intermittent, interrupted, on-again-off-again, periodic, random, recurrent, restive, restless, shifting, spasmodic, spastic, spotty, unstable, variable |
| Antonyms: | constant, continuous, even, regular, undisturbed, unvarying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fickle, irresponsible |
| Synonyms: | airheaded, birdbrained, bubbleheaded, capricious, changeable, dingbat, dingdong, dizzy*, effervescent, empty-headed, featherbrained, frivolous, gaga, giddy, harebrained, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, lightheaded, lively, mercurial, scatterbrained, silly, thoughtless, twit, unbalanced, unstable, unsteady, volatile, whimsical, wild |
| Antonyms: | responsible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | giddy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silly, impulsive |
| Synonyms: | bemused, brainless, bubbleheaded, capricious, careless, changeable, changeful, ditzy, dizzy, empty-headed, erratic, fickle, flighty, flustered, frivolous, gaga, heedless, inconstant, irresolute, irresponsible, lightheaded, punchy, reckless, reeling, scatterbrained, skittish, slaphappy, swimming*, thoughtless, unbalanced, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, volatile, whimsical, whirling, wild, woozy |
| Antonyms: | calm, careful, level-headed, sensible, serious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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