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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changeable |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeful, erratic, fickle, flickering, fluctuating, impulsive, inconsistent, intermittent, irregular, irresolute, mercurial, shifting, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, vacillating, variable, varying, volatile, waffling, wavering |
| Main Entry: | changeable |
| 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: | corrupt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | base, bent, bribable, crooked, debauched, double-dealing, exploiting, extortionate, faithless, fast and loose, fixed, foul, fraudulent, gone to the dogs, inconstant, iniquitous, knavish, mercenary, nefarious, on the take, open, padded, perfidious, praetorian, profiteering, racket up, reprobate, rotten, shady, snide, suborned, tainted, treacherous, two-faced, underhanded, unethical, unfaithful, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, wide open |
| Antonyms: | decent, honest, honorable, principled, pure, trustworthy, truthful, uncorrupt, upright |
| 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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