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Fickle
Fickle Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Fickle?
[adj] 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"
[adj] marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Fickle: changeable |
changeful |
erratic |
inconstant |
mercurial |
quicksilver(a) |
volatile
Related Terms | Find terms related to Fickle: adrift |
afloat |
agnostic |
alternating |
ambiguous |
ambitendent |
ambivalent |
amorphous |
at loose ends |
brittle |
capricious |
chancy |
changeable |
changeful |
coquettish |
corruptible |
deciduous |
derelict |
desultory |
deviable |
dicey |
disaffected |
disloyal |
dizzy |
double-minded |
doubting |
dubious |
dying |
eccentric |
ephemeral |
equivocal |
erratic |
evanescent |
faddish |
fading |
faithless |
false |
fanciful |
fast and loose |
fence-sitting |
fence-straddling |
fitful |
fleeting |
flickering |
flighty |
flirtatious |
flitting |
fluctuating |
fly-by-night |
flying |
fragile |
frail |
freakish |
frivolous |
fugacious |
fugitive |
giddy |
hesitant |
hesitating |
impermanent |
impetuous |
impulsive |
incalculable |
inconsistent |
inconstant |
indecisive |
indemonstrable |
infirm |
infirm of purpose |
insubstantial |
irregular |
irresolute |
irresolved |
irresponsible |
light |
lubricious |
mazy |
mercurial |
momentary |
moody |
mortal |
mugwumpian |
mugwumpish |
mutable |
nondurable |
nonpermanent |
not true to |
of bad faith |
of two minds |
passing |
perishable |
polysemous |
quicksilver |
rambling |
recreant |
restless |
roving |
scatterbrained |
shapeless |
shifting |
shifty |
short-lived |
shuffling |
skeptical |
skittish |
spasmodic |
spineless |
temperamental |
temporal |
temporary |
ticklish |
touch-and-go |
toying |
transient |
transitive |
transitory |
trothless |
unaccountable |
uncertain |
unconfirmable |
uncontrolled |
unconvinced |
undecided |
undependable |
undetermined |
undisciplined |
undivinable |
undurable |
unenduring |
unfaithful |
unfixed |
unforeseeable |
unloyal |
unpersuaded |
unpredictable |
unprovable |
unreliable |
unresolved |
unrestrained |
unsettled |
unstable |
unstable as water |
unstaid |
unsteadfast |
unsteady |
unsure |
untrue |
untrustworthy |
unverifiable |
vacillating |
vagrant |
variable |
versatile |
vicissitudinary |
vicissitudinous |
volatile |
wandering |
wanton |
wavering |
wavery |
wavy |
wayward |
whimsical |
wishy-washy
See Also |
Fickle In Webster's Dictionary
\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.
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