mutable

mutable
mutability, mutableness, n.mutably, adv.
/myooh"teuh beuhl/, adj.
1. liable or subject to change or alteration.
2. given to changing; constantly changing; fickle or inconstant: the mutable ways of fortune.
[1350-1400; ME < L mutabilis, equiv. to muta(re) to change + -bilis -BLE]
Syn. 1. changeable, variable. 2. unstable, vacillating, unsettled, wavering, unsteady.
Ant. 2. stable.

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