changeable

[ cheyn-juh-buhl ]

/ ˈtʃeɪn dʒə bəl /

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adjective

liable to change or to be changed; variable.

of changing color or appearance: changeable silk.

OTHER WORDS FOR changeable

1 erratic, inconstant, fickle, flighty, unstable.

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Origin of changeable

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

OTHER WORDS FROM changeable

change·a·bil·i·ty, change·a·ble·ness, nounchange·a·bly, adverbnon·change·a·ble, adjectivenon·change·a·ble·ness, noun

non·change·a·bly, adverbun·change·a·bil·i·ty, nounun·change·a·ble, adjectiveun·change·a·bly, adverb

Words nearby changeable

Changchiakow, Changchow, Changchun, Changde, change, changeable, change down, changeful, change hands, change horses in midstream, don't, change key

How to use changeable in a sentence

This pair comes with two extra pairs of gel ear tips that come in small and medium that are completely changeable depending on your comfort level, allowing you to listen longer without worrying about hurting your ears.
Enjoy 50 percent off these earbuds that offer 100 percent wireless listening|Quinn Gawronski|July 8, 2021|Popular-Science
If the antibodies could bind to the stable protein “stem” instead of its changeable “head,” they could protect against any flu strain, and people wouldn’t need to get new shots year after year.
One-shot flu shot|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
While it is true that on occasion an inspector will find an issue or two that might be of real concern not only for the buyer but for the seller, on most occasions home inspectors find issues that are fixable, livable, or changeable.
Inspections, electrical panels, and roofs, oh my!|Joseph Hudson|December 11, 2020|Washington Blade
Even among the devout, beliefs and affiliations are startlingly changeable.
GOP’s Christian Hysteria Attacks U.S. Principle of Freedom From Religion|Leslie Bennetts|March 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST

"He was a complicated man of very intense (and sometimes changeable) friendships, passions, and causes," Fallows wrote.
Mysterious Murder of Bush Official: John P. Wheeler III Found Dead in Delaware Landfill|Christine Pelisek, Pat Wingert|January 4, 2011|DAILY BEAST
While any file can be kept viewable or changeable by only you, it can also be shared with whomever you choose to invite.
Google's War on the PC|Douglas Rushkoff|July 8, 2009|DAILY BEAST
We are a changeable people, reinventing ourselves almost compulsively.
Read Me, I'm Irish|Mark Salter|March 17, 2009|DAILY BEAST
A court is like certain changeable colours; which vary according to the different lights they are exposed in.
The 'Characters' of Jean de La Bruyre|Jean de La Bruyre
The thought of these things is adventitious, changeable, and does not apply to permanent objects.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3|Plotinos (Plotinus)
His temper is violent and changeable, but he has excellent manners and is full of tact.
Paul Patoff|F. Marion Crawford
Virtue in us is grafted upon nature and the woman; the one is changeable, the other is weak.
The love letters of Abelard and Heloise|Peter Abelard
For the changeableness of changeable things, is itself capable of all those forms, into which these changeable things are changed.
The Confessions of Saint Augustine|Saint Augustine

British Dictionary definitions for changeable

changeable

/ (ˈtʃeɪndʒəbəl) /

adjective

able to change or be changed; ficklechangeable weather

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

Derived forms of changeable

changeability or changeableness, nounchangeably, adverb

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