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Definition of Changeable

1. Adjective. Capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature. "A mutable foreign policy"

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

3. Adjective. Subject to change. "Unsettled weather with rain and hail and sunshine coming one right after the other"

4. Adjective. Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles. "A dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"

Definition of Changeable

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

Definition of Changeable

1. Adjective. Capable of being changed. ¹

2. Adjective. Subject to sudden or frequent changes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Changeable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Changeable

change one's tune change order change orders change over change places change posture change ringing change shape change someone's mind change state

change surface change taste change up changeabilities changeability changeable changeableness changeably changed changeful

changefully changefulness changefulnesses changeless changelessly changelessness changeling changelings changelog changelogs

Literary usage of Changeable

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

1. An elementary treatise on mineralogy and geology: being an introduction to by Parker Cleaveland (1816)
"We notice both changeable and irised colors in the same article, ... The exhibition of changeable and irised colors, when the latter is not merely a tarnish ..."

2. The Reign of Law by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1873)
"We have another example in the use made of such words as " changeable," and others of a like kind. Thus Mr. Mill1 quotes, with approbation, ..."

3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: see Changeable, VACILLATING, CAPRICIOUS, UNSTABLE. 4. In a sense implying continuation in time: continual, continued, persistent, sustained, ..."

4. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"MUTABLE, from the Latin muto to chance, is the same as changeable. ... Changeable is said of persons or things; mutable is said of things only: human beings ..."

5. Outlines of Psychology: Dictated Portions of the Lectures of Hermann Lotze by Hermann Lotze (1886)
"THE Changeable STATES OF THE SOUL. § 87. The life of the soul does not consist in the uniform possession but in the changeable exercise of its capacities. ..."

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