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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MU'TABLE, a. [L. mutabilis, from muto, to change.]
1. Subject to change; changeable; that may be altered in form, qualities or nature. Almost every thing we see on earth is mutable; substances are mutable in their form, and we all know by sad experience how mutable are the conditions of life.
2. Inconstant; unsettled; unstable; susceptible of change. Our opinions and our purposes are mutable.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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: mutable, changeable] [ant: changeless, immutable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin mutabilis, from mutare to change; akin to Old English m?than to conceal, Sanskrit min?ti he exchanges, deceives Date: 14th century 1. prone to change ; inconstant 2. a. capable of change or of being changed b. capable of or liable to mutation • mutability noun • mutably adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. literary 1 liable to change. 2 fickle. Derivatives: mutability n. Etymology: L mutabilis f. mutare change

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Changeable, alterable, variable. 2. Inconstant, unsettled, vacillating, fickle, unstable, changeable, unsteady, wavering, variable, irresolute, changeful.

Moby Thesaurus

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