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fick·le
(fĭk′əl)adj.
Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious.
[Middle English fikel, from Old English ficol, deceitful.]
fick′le·ness n.
fick′ly adv.
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fickle
(ˈfɪkəl)adj
changeable in purpose, affections, etc; capricious
[Old English ficol deceitful; related to fician to wheedle, befician to deceive]
ˈfickleness n
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fick•le
(ˈfɪk əl)adj.
1. not constant or loyal in affections.
2. likely to change, esp. due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable: fickle weather.
[before 1000; Middle English fikel, Old English ficol deceitful]
fick′le•ness, n.
syn: fickle, inconstant, capricious describe persons or things that are not firm or steady in affection, behavior, opinion, or loyalty. fickle implies an underlying perversity as a cause for the lack of stability: once lionized, now rejected by a fickle public. inconstant suggests an innate disposition to change: an inconstant lover, flitting from affair to affair. capricious implies unpredictable changeability arising from sudden whim: a capricious reversal of policy.
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| Adj. | 1. | fickle - marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" inconstant - likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable; "inconstant affections"; "an inconstant lover"; "swear not by...the inconstant moon"- Shakespeare |
| 2. |  fickle - 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"changeful, changeable - such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices" |
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fickle
adjective capricious, variable, volatile, unpredictable, unstable, unfaithful, temperamental, mercurial, unsteady, faithless, changeable, quicksilver, vacillating, fitful, flighty, blowing hot and cold, mutable, irresolute, inconstant They are fickle, faithless and lewd.
predictable, firm, true, settled, stable, constant, reliable, loyal, faithful, staunch, resolute, trustworthy, steadfast, invariable, changeless
predictable, firm, true, settled, stable, constant, reliable, loyal, faithful, staunch, resolute, trustworthy, steadfast, invariable, changeless
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fickle
adjectiveFollowing no predictable pattern:
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fickle
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fickle
(ˈfikl) adjective always changing (one's mind, likes and dislikes etc). I think that they are fickle.
ˈfickleness nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.