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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mutable \Mu"ta*ble\, adjective [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) 2.0 [wn]:
mutable
adjective: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "mutable": able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, ambitendent, ambivalent, at loose ends, brittle, capricious, changeable, changeful, changing, checkered, choppy, corruptible, deciduous, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, double-minded, dubious, dying, ephemeral, erose, erratic, evanescent, ever-changing, fading, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fleeting, flexible, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm of purpose, insubstantial, irregular, irresolute, irresolved, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, lubricious, malleable, many-sided, mercurial, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, momentary, mortal, motley, movable, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, nonconformist, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonuniform, of two minds, passing, perishable, permutable, plastic, pluralistic, protean, proteiform, ragged, resilient, rough, rubbery, shifty, shilly-shally, short-lived, slippery, spasmodic, sporadic, subject to death, supple, swaying, swinging, temperamental, temporal, temporary, ticklish, transient, transitive, transitory, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, undurable, unenduring, unequable, unequal, uneven, unorthodox, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, volatile, wavering
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