changeable

changeable
adj
1. variable, protean, chameleonlike, chameleonic, changing, changeful; diversified, variegated, checkered, many-sided, many-faceted; inconstant, unsteady, unstable, uneven, irregular, unreliable, undependable; vacillatory, vacillant, vicissitudi-nary, vicissitudinous, fluctuant, varying, shilly-shallying; wavering, uncertain, unsure, indecisive, irresolute; fickle, skittish, faddish, flighty, mercurial, capricious, blowing hot and cold, lightsome.
2. alterable, modifiable, permutable, mutable, transformable, transmutable; commutative, substitutive, exchangeable, interchangeable, convertible, reversible.

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