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Changeable; variable
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protean
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Word definitions for protean in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ an actor's protean talents EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Clinton has been too protean to entirely satisfy either. ▪ Consistent with the protean nature of migraine, there are many exceptions to this generalization. ▪ Even ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protean \Pro"te*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus. `` Protean transformations.'' --Cudworth. Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an am[oe]ba is a protean animalcule.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling protean gray which is never twice the same"
Usage examples of protean.
Now, as Rogers watched her, he caught a flash of that raciness and swift mobility, that fluid, protean elasticity of temperament which belonged to the fairy kingdom.
The betentacled and gargantuan mass of protean tissue that was the obscene reality of Cthulhu was no longer just a literary figment--it was hellishly real and malignantly alive.
Accepted only the year before, the Proteans were the brainchild of Hester L.
And there were those who whispered of even stranger blood (if one could properly call it blood) and a monstrous linkage with the swart Protean spawn that had come down with Tsathoggua from elder worlds and exterior dimensions where physiology and geometry had both assumed an altogether inverse trend of development.
He more and more revealed himself as such, as adversity stripped away the glamour of the early Hitler, the protean masks he devised fell off one by one, and he dwindled to the broken jabberer I last glimpsed in the bunker.
It was more like Soad's permanent home and base of operations, and in time of need apparently also his fortress—a single massive block threaded by a maze of chambers and narrow tunnels, through which his protean, semi-metallic body flowed with liquid smoothness.
Protean silk cotton and fig trees, as tall as modern buildings, as thickly veined as a weight lifter's biceps, thrust upward from a veritable avalanche of foliage that has advanced upon the mystic city like an avenging army.