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/tʃˈeɪndʒəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Changeable adj.

Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.

Synonyms: Mutable; alterable; variable; inconstant; fitful; vacillating; capricious; fickle; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; erratic; giddy; volatile.

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Etymology of 'Changeable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Changeable" Quotes from Famous Books

... changeable man, who was a strange compound of a trapper and a gentleman, led the way to the principal dwelling-house, and, throwing open the door, ushered his guests into the reception hall of ...

— The Wild Man of the West - A Tale of the Rocky Mountains • R.M. Ballantyne

... instead of being slowly weathered from the cliffs like ordinary taluses, they were all formed suddenly and simultaneously by a great earthquake that occurred at least three centuries ago. And though thus hurled into existence in a few seconds or minutes, they are the least changeable of all the Sierra soil-beds. Excepting those which were launched directly into the channels of swift rivers, scarcely one of their wedged and interlacing boulders has moved since the day of their creation; and though mostly made up of huge blocks of granite, many of them from ten ...

— The Yosemite • John Muir

... me if I were twenty times worthier! Mother, mother! What has turned you against us again? It is not like you to change about so! I cannot bear to find you changeable! I should have sworn you were just the one to understand her perfectly! I cannot bear you should let unworthy reasons prejudice you against anyone!—If you say a word more against her, I will go and sit outside ...

— What's Mine's Mine • George MacDonald

... the AEolian Isle is that it was afloat in the waters of the sea, as Delos and other islands of antiquity were reported to be. Not stationary then; the king of it, AEolus, has a name which indicates a changeable nature, veering about like the winds, of which he is king. The second fact pertaining to this Isle is that a wall of brass encircles it not to be broken through; "and the cliff runs up sheer from the ...

— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider

... large, how difficult to understand! So vast, so complicated, so full of contradictions, so various and changeable, that its very immensity is our refuge! We say, It is impossible to do justice to such a system; therefore do not demand it ...

— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke

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