mutable
- liable or subject to change or alteration.
- given to changing; constantly changing; fickle or inconstant: the mutable ways of fortune.
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erratic, fickle, inconstant, mercurial, unreliable, vacillating, variable, wavering, alterable, fluctuatingExamples from the Web for mutable
Historical Examples of mutable
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Essays, First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
"Too bright—too mutable," answered the doctor, shaking his head.
Ernest LinwoodCaroline Lee Hentz
Caius did not attempt to carve his inscription on the mutable sandstone.
The MermaidLily Dougall
Something permanent in the midst of all that is mutable we may expect to find here.
Homer's OdysseyDenton J. Snider
By changing the initial to the second state, if it is mutable.
A Handbook of the Cornish LanguageHenry Jenner
mutable
- able to or tending to change
- astrology of or relating to four of the signs of the zodiac, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, which are associated with the quality of adaptabilityCompare cardinal (def. 9), fixed (def. 10)
Word Origin for mutable
Word Origin and History for mutable
late 14c., "liable to change," from Latin mutabilis "changeable," from mutare "to change," from PIE root *mei- "to change, go, move" (cf. Sanskrit methati "changes, alternates, joins, meets;" Avestan mitho "perverted, false;" Hittite mutai- "be changed into;" Latin meare "to go, pass," migrare "to move from one place to another;" Old Church Slavonic mite "alternately;" Czech mijim "to go by, pass by," Polish mijać "avoid;" Gothic maidjan "to change"); with derivatives referring to the exchange of goods and services as regulated by custom or law (cf. Latin mutuus "done in exchange," munus "service performed for the community, duty, work").