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单词 fickle
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fickle


fick·le

F0103700 (fĭk′əl)adj. Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious.
[Middle English fikel, from Old English ficol, deceitful.]
fick′le·ness n.fick′ly adv.

fickle

(ˈfɪkəl) adjchangeable in purpose, affections, etc; capricious[Old English ficol deceitful; related to fician to wheedle, befician to deceive] ˈfickleness n

fick•le

(ˈfɪk əl)

adj. 1. not constant or loyal in affections. 2. likely to change, esp. due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable: fickle weather. [before 1000; Middle English fikel, Old English ficol deceitful] fick′le•ness, n. syn: fickle, inconstant, capricious describe persons or things that are not firm or steady in affection, behavior, opinion, or loyalty. fickle implies an underlying perversity as a cause for the lack of stability: once lionized, now rejected by a fickle public. inconstant suggests an innate disposition to change: an inconstant lover, flitting from affair to affair. capricious implies unpredictable changeability arising from sudden whim: a capricious reversal of policy.
Thesaurus
Adj.1.fickle - marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"volatileinconstant - likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable; "inconstant affections"; "an inconstant lover"; "swear not by...the inconstant moon"- Shakespeare
2.fickle - liable to sudden unpredictable changefickle - liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"erratic, mercurial, quicksilverchangeful, changeable - such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices"

fickle

adjective capricious, variable, volatile, unpredictable, unstable, unfaithful, temperamental, mercurial, unsteady, faithless, changeable, quicksilver, vacillating, fitful, flighty, blowing hot and cold, mutable, irresolute, inconstant They are fickle, faithless and lewd.
predictable, firm, true, settled, stable, constant, reliable, loyal, faithful, staunch, resolute, trustworthy, steadfast, invariable, changeless

fickle

adjectiveFollowing no predictable pattern:capricious, changeable, erratic, fantastic, fantastical, freakish, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, temperamental, ticklish, uncertain, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile, whimsical.
Translations
反复无常的

fickle

(ˈfikl) adjective always changing (one's mind, likes and dislikes etc). I think that they are fickle. 善變的 反复无常的ˈfickleness noun 變化無常 变化无常

fickle


  • adj

Synonyms for fickle

adj capricious

Synonyms

  • capricious
  • variable
  • volatile
  • unpredictable
  • unstable
  • unfaithful
  • temperamental
  • mercurial
  • unsteady
  • faithless
  • changeable
  • quicksilver
  • vacillating
  • fitful
  • flighty
  • blowing hot and cold
  • mutable
  • irresolute
  • inconstant

Antonyms

  • predictable
  • firm
  • true
  • settled
  • stable
  • constant
  • reliable
  • loyal
  • faithful
  • staunch
  • resolute
  • trustworthy
  • steadfast
  • invariable
  • changeless

Synonyms for fickle

adj following no predictable pattern

Synonyms

  • capricious
  • changeable
  • erratic
  • fantastic
  • fantastical
  • freakish
  • inconsistent
  • inconstant
  • mercurial
  • temperamental
  • ticklish
  • uncertain
  • unpredictable
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • variable
  • volatile
  • whimsical

Synonyms for fickle

adj marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments

Synonyms

  • volatile

Related Words

  • inconstant

adj liable to sudden unpredictable change

Synonyms

  • erratic
  • mercurial
  • quicksilver

Related Words

  • changeful
  • changeable
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