Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mutable"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mutable \Mu"ta*ble\, a. [L. mutabilis, fr. mutare to change. See
{Move}.]
1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in
form, qualities, or nature.
Things of the most accidental and mutable nature.
--South.
2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle.
``Most mutable wishes.'' --Byron.
Syn: Changeable; alterable; unstable; unsteady; unsettled;
wavering; inconstant; variable; fickle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mutable
adj : capable of or tending to change in form or quality or
nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of
fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable
foreign policy" [syn: {changeable}] [ant: {immutable}]
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