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mutable


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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