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单词 mutable
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Definition of mutable in English:

mutable

adjective ˈmjuːtəb(ə)lˈmjudəb(ə)l
  • 1Liable to change.

    the mutable nature of fashion
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Daily life gets a different kind of soundtrack, endlessly mutable and instantly reconfigurable.
    • Their meaning seems overwhelmingly important but mutable, depending on the context.
    • The former is fluid, mutable, and, above all, contested.
    • Everything was mutable: eye color, hair color, skin tone.
    • A website is a mutable message that maintains the same reference.
    • That media is mutable and can shift around their environment to meet their wishes and needs.
    • Flexible, adaptable and mutable are adjectives not normally applied to Capricorns.
    • But all truth isn't mutable, because some things can't be changed.
    • In this fiction the main characters are mutable, changing with the environment.
    • It is, rather, simply a part of the personal developmental experience, formally mutable and changing frequently.
    • It is, without doubt, a very exciting, innovative, constantly changing, hugely mutable and malleable tool.
    • Given this endlessly mutable document, how to tell when there's a useful revision and not an in-progress one?
    • As the questioning continues, it becomes apparent that truth is slippery and mutable.
    • Meanwhile, mutable interpretation and reaction will always be there.
    • My beliefs are mutable and transmittable and who I am is constantly changing.
    • Living in an ex-colony, I've discovered, means that place-names are highly mutable.
    • It also lines pop up with genetic engineering, the idea of the human form in the 21st Century becoming fascinatingly mutable.
    • However, the dynamic, mutable nature of open source often results in complexity.
    • Because of its mutable, unstable, and floating quality, eroticism often turns up in places where it might be assumed to have been completely eradicated.
    • His narratives, in which he translates current events, are too allegorical to be history, yet too mutable to be myth.
    Synonyms
    changeable, variable, varying, fluctuating, shifting, inconsistent, unpredictable, inconstant, uncertain, fluid, erratic, irregular, uneven, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, protean, chameleon-like, chameleonic
    capricious, fickle, faithless, flighty, unreliable, undependable, mercurial, volatile
    technical labile
    rare changeful, fluctuant
    1. 1.1literary Inconstant in one's affections.
      youth is said to be fickle and mutable
      Synonyms
      undependable, untrustworthy, irresponsible, reckless, fickle, capricious, irregular, erratic, unpredictable, inconstant, faithless, untrue, flighty, slippery

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin mutabilis, from mutare 'to change'.

 
 

Definition of mutable in US English:

mutable

adjectiveˈmyo͞odəb(ə)lˈmjudəb(ə)l
  • 1Liable to change.

    the mutable nature of fashion
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Meanwhile, mutable interpretation and reaction will always be there.
    • In this fiction the main characters are mutable, changing with the environment.
    • As the questioning continues, it becomes apparent that truth is slippery and mutable.
    • Their meaning seems overwhelmingly important but mutable, depending on the context.
    • Everything was mutable: eye color, hair color, skin tone.
    • His narratives, in which he translates current events, are too allegorical to be history, yet too mutable to be myth.
    • That media is mutable and can shift around their environment to meet their wishes and needs.
    • It also lines pop up with genetic engineering, the idea of the human form in the 21st Century becoming fascinatingly mutable.
    • However, the dynamic, mutable nature of open source often results in complexity.
    • My beliefs are mutable and transmittable and who I am is constantly changing.
    • It is, rather, simply a part of the personal developmental experience, formally mutable and changing frequently.
    • Living in an ex-colony, I've discovered, means that place-names are highly mutable.
    • But all truth isn't mutable, because some things can't be changed.
    • Flexible, adaptable and mutable are adjectives not normally applied to Capricorns.
    • A website is a mutable message that maintains the same reference.
    • It is, without doubt, a very exciting, innovative, constantly changing, hugely mutable and malleable tool.
    • The former is fluid, mutable, and, above all, contested.
    • Because of its mutable, unstable, and floating quality, eroticism often turns up in places where it might be assumed to have been completely eradicated.
    • Daily life gets a different kind of soundtrack, endlessly mutable and instantly reconfigurable.
    • Given this endlessly mutable document, how to tell when there's a useful revision and not an in-progress one?
    Synonyms
    changeable, variable, varying, fluctuating, shifting, inconsistent, unpredictable, inconstant, uncertain, fluid, erratic, irregular, uneven, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, protean, chameleon-like, chameleonic
    1. 1.1literary Inconstant in one's affections.
      youth is said to be fickle and mutable
      Synonyms
      undependable, untrustworthy, irresponsible, reckless, fickle, capricious, irregular, erratic, unpredictable, inconstant, faithless, untrue, flighty, slippery

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin mutabilis, from mutare ‘to change’.

 
 
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