fickle as an adjective: - 1
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fickle
adjective
1 fickle
Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments:
— Fickle friends.
synonym: volatile.
Roget 605:
irresolute,
infirm of purpose,
double-minded,
half-hearted;
undecided,
unresolved,
undetermined;
shilly-shally;
fidgety,
tremulous;
hesitating
etc.
v.;
off one's balance;
at a loss
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
vacillating
etc.
v.;
unsteady
etc.
(changeable)
149;
unsteadfast†,
fickle,
without ballast;
capricious
etc.
608;
volatile,
frothy;
light,
lightsome,
light-minded;
giddy;
fast and loose.
weak,
feeble-minded,
frail;
timid,
wimpish,
wimpy
etc.
860;
cowardly
etc.
862;
dough-faced [U.S.];
facile;
pliant
etc.
(soft)
324;
unable to say 'no',
easy-going revocable,
reversible.
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Roget 608:
capricious;
erratic,
eccentric,
fitful,
hysterical;
full of whims
etc.
n.;
maggoty;
inconsistent,
fanciful,
fantastic,
whimsical,
crotchety,
kinky [U.S.],
particular,
humorsome†,
freakish,
skittish,
wanton,
wayward;
contrary;
captious;
arbitrary;
unconformable
etc.
83;
penny wise and pound foolish;
fickle
etc.
(irresolute)
605;
frivolous,
sleeveless,
giddy,
volatile.
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2 fickle
Liable to sudden unpredictable change:
— Fickle weather.
synonyms: erratic, mercurial, quicksilver.
Roget 149:
changeable,
changeful;
changing
etc.
140;
mutable,
variable,
checkered,
ever changing;
protean,
proteiform†;
versatile.
unstaid†,
inconstant;
unsteady,
unstable,
unfixed,
unsettled;
fluctuating
etc.
v.;
restless;
agitated
etc.
315;
erratic,
fickle;
irresolute
etc.
605;
capricious
etc.
608;
touch and go;
inconsonant,
fitful,
spasmodic;
vibratory;
vagrant,
wayward;
desultory;
afloat;
alternating;
alterable,
plastic,
mobile;
transient
etc.
111;
wavering.
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