Crossword clues for mutable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mutable \Mu"ta*ble\, a. [L. mutabilis, fr. mutare to change. See Move.]
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Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.
Things of the most accidental and mutable nature.
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Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. ``Most mutable wishes.''
--Byron.Syn: Changeable; alterable; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; inconstant; variable; fickle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "liable to change," from Latin mutabilis "changeable," from mutare "to change," from PIE root *mei- (1) "to change, go, move" (cognates: 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 (compare Latin mutuus "done in exchange," munus "service performed for the community, duty, work").
Wiktionary
a. 1 change; inclined to mutate. 2 (context programming of a variable English) Having a value that is changeable during program execution.
WordNet
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: changeable] [ant: immutable]
Usage examples of "mutable".
The kraikk live in a mutable, fogged plane where the ether breaks up into cloudy puffs that drift between the inhabitants.
When anything remains in doubt, to even the slightest degree, it is both mutable and corrigible.
Without the kind of identifiable identity that belongs to the individual thing as a subject of change, human beings, having obviously mutable existence, could not be held morally responsible for their acts.
Creating a form that resembled what he gathered from the sulfurous masses below was considered the noblest and most elevated among the Sulfurians, a Mutable, he projected this image of himself to the audience he had selected from among their number.
If they should become Liquid, while you become Mutable, your positions would be reversed.
Two days later, Erasmus stood inside an amazingly transformed incarnation of the mutable Central Spire, which now stood as an ostentatious golden-domed palace.
Erasmus stood inside an amazingly transformed incarnation of the mutable Central Spire, which now stood as an ostentatious golden-domed palace.
She found a comb in the bathroom and yanked it through her long, tangled light-brown hair, aware of her tan face and hazel eyes framed by bangs as she had not been in years and years, seeing as how in Crescent City appearance was a shell so mutable that it was thought of as decoration, like clothing.
His oaths of honor and trust seemed as insubstantial as mist and as mutable as the moon.
Men like these who roamed the countryside, hiring themselves out to the highest bidder, their loyalties as mutable as the wind, did so not by choice, but by circumstance.
Yahweh will sink to being one more character in a crude and mutable pantheon.
And, after all, her work did not expose her to the paradoxes and hazards of mutable time.
I knew only smell, the wonderful, mutable world of free-floating scent molecules.
It was this overwhelming abundance of life, I think which led the first Agathanians to cark their human bodies into seal-like shapes, to escape into the whisperless depths and fill the ocean with their mutable, godling children.
But it must be observed that, by the series of causes and real entities, I do not here mean the series of particular and mutable things, but only the series of fixed and eternal things.