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[ cheyn-juh-buhl ] / ˈtʃeɪn dʒə bəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR changeable ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveliable to change or to be changed; variable. of changing color or appearance: changeable silk. Origin of changeableMiddle English word dating back to 1200–50; see origin at change, -able SYNONYMS FOR changeable1 erratic, inconstant, fickle, flighty, unstable. SEE SYNONYMS FOR changeable ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM changeablechange·a·bil·i·ty, change·a·ble·ness, nounchange·a·bly, adverbnon·change·a·ble, adjectivenon·change·a·ble·ness, noun non·change·a·bly, adverbun·change·a·bil·i·ty, nounun·change·a·ble, adjectiveun·change·a·bly, adverb Words nearby changeableChangchiakow, Changchow, Changchun, Changde, change, changeable, change down, changeful, change hands, change horses in midstream, don't, change key Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for changeableWhile any file can be kept viewable or changeable by only you, it can also be shared with whomever you choose to invite. Google's War on the PC|Douglas Rushkoff|July 8, 2009|DAILY BEAST We are a changeable people, reinventing ourselves almost compulsively. Read Me, I'm Irish|Mark Salter|March 17, 2009|DAILY BEAST The psychologist (not lifting his gaze from the realm of the changeable) may find in them matters of interest. Essays in Experimental Logic|John Dewey You may be convinced that just that passionate, changeable nature of my brother has made the children so earnest, so deliberate.' A Sister's Love|W. Heimburg
She—she who was accustomed to flaunt in a "changeable" silk, and her bonnet had an ostrich plume! The Storm Centre|Charles Egbert Craddock Changeable Silk, that's what you are—changing color all the time, never standing firm! The Madigans|Miriam Michelson It has no fixed gods; they are changeable like the things themselves; they blend one into another. Essay on the Creative Imagination|Th. Ribot
British Dictionary definitions for changeable
adjectiveable to change or be changed; ficklechangeable weather varying in colour when viewed from different angles or in different lights Derived forms of changeablechangeability or changeableness, nounchangeably, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to changeableprotean, unsettled, varying, capricious, unpredictable, fickle, unstable, volatile, mercurial, fluctuating, shifting, mutable, changeful, agitated, convertible, fitful, flighty, fluid, impulsive, inconstant |