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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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