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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
changeable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'm a changeable sort of person.
▪ The changeable weather that November brings can lead to foggy conditions.
▪ The British weather is very changeable.
▪ We have very changeable weather here, especially in the winter.
▪ You love him now, but at your age feelings are changeable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But according to the ideal, the imam is just only because he is vulnerable and changeable.
▪ Everybody was, as Oliver knew himself to be, changeable.
▪ First, the political demands on public enterprises lead to objectives that are confusing, changeable and often mutually at odds.
▪ His changeable features, his tones, gestures and expressions seemed to defy descriptions.
▪ The daughter refused, because the wind was too cold and changeable.
▪ The rules of the game are seen as fixed at any point in time by mutual agreement and changeable through mutual agreement.
▪ These changeable areas are called intertidal zones.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Changeable

Changeable \Change"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. changeable.]

  1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

  2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.

    Syn: Mutable; alterable; variable; inconstant; fitful; vacillating; capricious; fickle; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; erratic; giddy; volatile.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
changeable

mid-13c., "unstable, inconstant, unreliable," from Old French changeable "inconstant," from changier (see change (v.)) + -able (see -able). Meaning "subject to variation" is from late 14c. Related: Changeably.

Wiktionary
changeable

a. 1 Capable of being changed. 2 Subject to sudden or frequent changes.

WordNet
changeable
  1. adj. 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]

  2. such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices" [syn: changeful] [ant: unchangeable]

  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]

  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]

Wikipedia
Changeable

Changeable may refer to:

  • Changeables also known as McRobots, a toy series produced by McDonald's
  • Changeable hawk-eagle, or crested hawk-eagle
  • Swift & Changeable
  • Changeable lizard, or Oriental garden lizard
  • Changeable tree toad, or gray tree frog
  • Changeable silk, or shot silk
  • Changeable grass-veneer, or Fissicrambus mutabilis

Usage examples of "changeable".

I remembered, was one of those changeable days during Eastertide when the air capriciously becomes warm and sweet and the world occasionally seems altogether right.

The young woman was as exasperatingly changeable as her inconstant face.

Corbett or anyone else should be abroad, for it was a drizzling cold November night, and the streets were muddy, as only Winnipeg streets in the old days could be--none of your light-minded, fickle-hearted, changeable mud that is mud to-day and dust to-morrow, but the genuine, original, brush-defying, soap-and-water-proof, north star, burr mud, blacker than lampblack, stickier than glue!

But the passions of the people are furious and changeable, and the Romans soon recollected the merits, or dreaded the resentment, of their victorious general.

Although the reward or punishment of the body depends upon the reward or punishment of the soul, nevertheless, since the soul is changeable only accidentally, on account of the body, once it is separated from the body it enters into an unchangeable condition, and receives its judgment.

All sins agree in aversion from God, although they differ by conversion to different changeable goods.

First they wrapped the Great Father Serpent in fine smallclothes of softwhispering blush-colored changeable taffeta taken from a mahogany wardrobe of prodigious size located behind him, tussling for half an hour to cover his whole great length.

The River Tethys had changeable connections, and any data about the next world on the line has evidently been lost to us.

They have nipples around the walls at varying heights, suitable for a range of people, but they also have this changeable floor that is so easily cleaned.

Moreover, the curly tendrils spilling over a clear white forehead somehow emphasised the changeable lustre of the largest pair of thick-lashed grey eyes in the entire province, if not in all the land of Vonahr.

However, when kindergartners with a mastery-orientation failed, they simply assumed they were still good but needed to do something differently--they thought their intelligence or coping ability was changeable!

La beaute du diable, no doubt, to Anglo-Saxon eyes, with that skin of incomparable texture and whiteness relieved by a heavily coiled crown of living bronze, the crimson insolence of that matchless mouth, those luminous and changeable eyes so like the sea, whose green melted into blue with the swiftness of thought, whose blue at times as swiftly shaded into stormy purple-black: but however bizarre and barbaric, beauty none the less, and under the most meticulous examination indisputable.

In amid the somnolent drone of the bumblebees, fat and lazy with midsummer pollen, he felt comfortably alone—detached, even, from the changeable weather.

Light scintillated from the Eagers in ringed rainbows, corruscating and glittering, a rhapsodic symphony of color, the flocks of gyre-birds twisting around them, a swirling garment of changeable smoke.

And they said that the crown of changeable gold, with its thirteen fellowless gems, was still carried by the bird.