changeable

[ cheyn-juh-buhl ]
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adjective
  1. liable to change or to be changed; variable.

  2. of changing color or appearance: changeable silk.

Origin of changeable

1
Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; see origin at change, -able

Other words for changeable

Other words from changeable

  • change·a·bil·i·ty, change·a·ble·ness, noun
  • change·a·bly, adverb
  • non·change·a·ble, adjective
  • non·change·a·ble·ness, noun
  • non·change·a·bly, adverb
  • un·change·a·bil·i·ty, noun
  • un·change·a·ble, adjective
  • un·change·a·bly, adverb

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How to use changeable in a sentence

  • Townshend bore, as Hume hints, a bad character for changeability.

  • This leads us to the subject of changeability of colours in the same individual.

    The Sea Shore | William S. Furneaux
  • To them we Americans may owe our energy, our vivacity, our changeability of mood.

    Reading the Weather | Thomas Morris Longstreth
  • France has been a victim to the personal passions of her chiefs and to her own reckless changeability.

    A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times | Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
  • Changeability is attributed to the feminine, but Maya was not able to shift her mood as facilely as her fiance.

    Rebels of the Red Planet | Charles Louis Fontenay

British Dictionary definitions for changeable

changeable

/ (ˈtʃeɪndʒəbəl) /


adjective
  1. able to change or be changed; fickle: changeable weather

  2. varying in colour when viewed from different angles or in different lights

Derived forms of changeable

  • changeability or changeableness, noun
  • changeably, adverb

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