Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fickle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fickle \Fic"kle\, a. [OE. fikel untrustworthy, deceitful, AS.
ficol, fr. fic, gefic, fraud, deceit; cf. f[=a]cen deceit,
OS. f?kn, OHG. feichan, Icel. feikn portent. Cf. {Fidget}.]
Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a
changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant;
capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. --Shak.
They know how fickle common lovers are. --Dryden.
Syn: Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable;
inconsonant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful;
capricious; veering; shifting.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fickle
adj 1: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or
attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile
affections" [syn: {volatile}]
2: 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" [syn: {erratic}, {mercurial}, {quicksilver(a)}]
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