| 单词 | inconstant |
| 释义 | inconstant (once / 2837 pages) adj Anything that's inconstant changes all the time. Don’t give your heart to an inconstant friend because she might get distracted and drop it. The moon is inconstant, with all that waxing and waning, but we love it anyway. You can't exactly count on things — or people — that are inconstant, since they vary or waver so much. Someone who's inconstant is fickle or even undependable. An inconstant friend might promise to come to your party and then fail to show up because she suddenly felt like going bowling instead. When the weather is inconstant, you don’t know what to wear. The Latin root is inconstantem, "changeable or capricious." WORD FAMILYinconstant: inconstancy, inconstanter, inconstantly+/constancy: constancies/constant: constancy, constantly, constants, inconstant/inconstancy: inconstancies USAGE EXAMPLESWe are inconstant in our decency, which is perhaps the most common form of indecency. Washington Post(Jun 22, 2016) Leadership may be, by its nature, an anxious and inconstant idea. The New Yorker(Feb 29, 2016) But at night, the moon is a dim and inconstant guide. National Geographic(Aug 24, 2015) adj likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable inconstant affections an inconstant lover "swear not by...the inconstant moon"- Shakespeare Syn|Ant changeable, changeful such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change false, untrue(used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful fickle, volatilemarked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments unfaithfulnot true to duty or obligation or promises unstablelacking stability or fixity or firmness variableliable to or capable of change volatileevaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures constant steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection unchangeablenot changeable or subject to change staunch, steadfast, unswervingfirm and dependable especially in loyalty unfailing, unflaggingunceasing faithfulsteadfast in affection or allegiance stableresistant to change of position or condition invariablenot liable to or capable of change |
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