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Definition of Changeful

1. Adjective. Such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change. "Changeable prices"

Definition of Changeful

1. a. Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.

Definition of Changeful

1. Adjective. (rare) Changing frequently; very susceptible to change; variable; fickle. ¹

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Definition of Changeful

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Changeful

Literary usage of Changeful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"changeful as the ocean bar. — IBID. Quickly changed as are the winds. ... As changeful as the lights which flick and flash from off the facets of the ..."

2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"What grace thou show'st—these Trojans, whose hot blood Knows no restraint of reason, nor will e'er Be satiate with the moil of changeful war. ..."

3. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"[William Bodham Donne, my brother John's school and college mate, for more than fifty years of this changeful life the unchanged, dear, and devoted friend ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"So changeful, so deceitful, do we find VI. The all-enduring, form'd another class, A heap of sluggish ashes, and an ass, Whom neither force, nor angry words ..."

5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Nevertheless its very mystery and vastness give to the Pacific a peculiar charm, which changeful Orient seas, and even the turbulent Atlantic, ..."

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