fluctuant
[fluhk-choo-uh nt]
adjective
fluctuating; varying; unstable.
undulating; moving or seeming to move in waves.
Origin of fluctuant
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Related Words for fluctuant
enormous, untold, unforeseen, immense, boundless, infinite, vast, shaky, unstable, wobbly, frail, unreliable, immature, vulnerable, rocky, nervous, insecure, weak, precarious, unsettledExamples from the Web for fluctuant
Historical Examples of fluctuant
She seemed to be clothed in fluctuant light, and yet it could not dim one radiance of her beauty.
"Persons Unknown"Virginia Tracy
With fluctuant blackness against immutable blackness great sweeping pine trees swished weirdly into the horizon.
Peace on Earth, Good-will to DogsEleanor Hallowell Abbott
Put forth thy wings, thy coronals of Love, wrap thee with fluctuant Winds and exulting Seas!
The Masque of the ElementsHerman Scheffauer
And the fluctuant oceans plume on plume Bears down to a rock-ribbed hidden doom, And the sky is ashen gray.
Trench Ballads and Other VersesErwin Clarkson Garrett
Brown is fluctuant; he once lay at a woman's house in Pemlicoe, Dublin.
fluctuant
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