changeable

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adjective

1. capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
- a mutable substance
- the mutable ways of fortune
- mutable weather patterns
- a mutable foreign policy
• Syn:
mutable
• Ant:
immutable (for: mutable)
• Derivationally related forms:
changeability, changeableness, mutability (for: mutable), mutableness (for: mutable)
2. such that alteration is possible;
having a marked tendency to change
- changeable behavior
- changeable moods
- changeable prices
• Syn:
changeful
• Ant:
unchangeable
• Similar to:
adjustable, astatic, checkered, distortable, erratic,
fickle, mercurial, quicksilver, fluid, unstable, mobile,
jittering, kaleidoscopic, kaleidoscopical, open-ended, quick-change, quick-drying,
reversible, volatile
• See Also:
exchangeable, inconstant
• Derivationally related forms:
changefulness (for: changeful), changeableness
• Attrubites:
changeableness, changeability
3. subject to change
- a changeable climate
- the weather is uncertain
- unsettled weather with rain and hail and sunshine coming one right after the other
• Syn:
uncertain, unsettled
• Similar to:
variable
• Derivationally related forms:
changeability, changeableness
4. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
- changeable taffeta
- chatoyant (or shot) silk
- a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent
• Syn:
chatoyant, iridescent, shot
• Similar to:
colorful, colourful
• Derivationally related forms:
iridescence (for: iridescent), iridesce (for: iridescent), changeableness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  chatoyant, iridescent, shot, uncertain, unsettled, changeful, mutable
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  unchangeable, immutable, changeless