mutable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: mu=ta=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

mutable, a. [L. mutabilis, fr. mutare to change. See Move.].

•  Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.  [1913 Webster]

  "Things of the most accidental and mutable nature."  [1913 Webster]
•  Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle.  Byron.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Changeable; alterable; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; inconstant; variable; fickle.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mutable, adj. literary 1 liable to change.
2 fickle.

Derivative

mutability n.

Etymology

L mutabilis f. mutare change

THESAURUS

mutable

able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, ambitendent, ambivalent, at loose ends, brittle, capricious, changeable, changeful, changing, checkered, choppy, corruptible, deciduous, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, double-minded, dubious, dying, ephemeral, erose, erratic, evanescent, ever-changing, fading, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fleeting, flexible, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm of purpose, insubstantial, irregular, irresolute, irresolved, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, lubricious, malleable, many-sided, mercurial, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, momentary, mortal, motley, movable, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, nonconformist, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonuniform, of two minds, passing, perishable, permutable, plastic, pluralistic, protean, proteiform, ragged, resilient, rough, rubbery, shifty, shilly-shally, short-lived, slippery, spasmodic, sporadic, subject to death, supple, swaying, swinging, temperamental, temporal, temporary, ticklish, transient, transitive, transitory, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, undurable, unenduring, unequable, unequal, uneven, unorthodox, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, volatile, wavering

ROGET THESAURUS

mutable

Changeableness

N changeableness, mutability, inconstancy, versatility, mobility, instability, unstable equilibrium, vacillation, fluctuation, vicissitude, alternation, restlessness, fidgets, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, unrest, agitation, moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers, wheel of Fortune, transientness, changeable, changeful, changing, mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing, protean, proteiform, versatile, unstaid, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled, fluctuating, restless, agitated, erratic, fickle, irresolute, capricious, touch and go, inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic, vibratory, vagrant, wayward, desultory, afloat, alternating, alterable, plastic, mobile, transient, wavering, seesaw, off and on, a rolling stone gathers no moss, pictra mossa non fa muschis, honores mutant mores, varium et mutabile semper femina.