variˈatious,a.rare—1. [Irreg. f. variation.] = variational a. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) II. 175 The names of Astyanax and Hector are really the same, for the one means a king, and the other is a ‘holder or possessor’; 'tis all one meaning, save the phrase is a little variatious.