changeable
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Etymology
From Middle English chaungeable, from Old Northern French chaungeable, from Late Latin cambiāre (“to change”), equivalent to change + -able.
Pronunciation
Adjective
changeable (comparative more changeable, superlative most changeable)
- Capable of being changed.
- Synonyms: alterable, modifiable, variable; see also Thesaurus:mutable
- Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
- Synonyms: fickle, labile, variable; see also Thesaurus:changeable
- The weather is very changeable today: we've had bright sunshine, clouds, wind and rain in the same half-hour.
- 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and Pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48:
- There will be no problems with visibility, or the highly changeable Highland weather, as Scotland basks in what is reported to be the country's hottest September day for more than a century.
- (of a species) Capable of camouflaging itself by changing colour.
- Synonym: chameleonic
Derived terms
Translations
capable of being changed
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subject to sudden or frequent changes
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Pronunciation
Adjective
changeable (plural changeables)
- changeable (capable of being changed)
Related terms
- see changer
Further reading
- “changeable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Adjective
changeable
- Alternative form of chaungeable
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