fluctuant
fluctuating; varying; unstable.
undulating; moving or seeming to move in waves.
Origin of fluctuant
1Other words from fluctuant
- un·fluc·tu·ant, adjective
Words Nearby fluctuant
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How to use fluctuant in a sentence
With fluctuant blackness against immutable blackness great sweeping pine trees swished weirdly into the horizon.
Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs | Eleanor Hallowell AbbottPut forth thy wings, thy coronals of Love, wrap thee with fluctuant Winds and exulting Seas!
The Masque of the Elements | Herman ScheffauerSomewhere fluctuant in my memory runs broken music—you have heard it?
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 | VariousAnd the fluctuant oceans plume on plume Bears down to a rock-ribbed hidden doom, And the sky is ashen gray.
Trench Ballads and Other Verses | Erwin Clarkson GarrettBrown is fluctuant; he once lay at a woman's house in Pemlicoe, Dublin.
British Dictionary definitions for fluctuant
/ (ˈflʌktjʊənt) /
inclined to vary or fluctuate; unstable
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