Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: changeable
IPA transcription: [tʃ'eɪndʒəbəl]
Pronunciations of changeable
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: changeable, changeful
    Meaning: such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices"
  • Synonyms: mutable, changeable
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot
    Meaning: varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"
  • Synonyms: changeable, uncertain, unsettled
    Meaning: subject to change; "a changeable climate"; "the weather is uncertain"; "unsettled weather with rain and hail and sunshine coming one right after the other"
Usage examples
  • The next moment, to my astonishment, this changeable creature changed again.
  • Take care of the Birch, for though she is honest, she is too young not to be changeable.
  • The law is the measure of civil right; but if the measure be changeable, the extent of the thing measured never can be settled.
  • The people of the waters have been in all ages beautiful and changeable and lascivious, or beautiful and wise and lonely, for water is everywhere the signature of the fruitfulness of the body and of the fruitfulness of dreams.
  • There, I wore a dark calico dress and sun-bonnet, both made by poor Mrs. McCutchen of the Donner Party, who had to take in sewing for a livelihood; but to the Seminary, I should wear grandpa's gift, a costly alpaca, changeable in the sunlight to soft mingling bluish and greenish colors of the peacock.
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