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Changeful

Definition: Changeful

Changeful

Adjective

1. Such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "changeful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

 

Synonym: Changeful

Synonym: changeable (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: unchangeable (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Changeful

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Changeableness

Adjective: changeable, changeful; changing; mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing; protean, proteiform; versatile.

Tergiversation

Adjective: changeful; irresolute; ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving; coquetting; Verb:

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Changeful

Etymologies containing "changeful": AEolotropic. (references)

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Sounds Captioned with "Changeful".

PlayCaption
Waver; changeful; fluctuating; fluid; inconstant; indecisive; irregular; irresolute; irresponsible; kaleidoscopic; mercurial; mobile; movable; mutable; permutable; protean; restless; reversible; revocable; shifting; skittish; spasmodic; transformable; tra.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Changeful

AuthorQuotation

Pindar

Hope, which most of all guides the changeful mind of mortals.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Changeful

"Changeful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Changeful" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Changeful

Language Translations for "changeful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që ndryshohet, i ndryshueshëm (alterable, changeable, fickle, flexible, inconstant, labile, mercurial, mobile, movable, mutable, protean, shifting, transitional, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, various, varying, vertiginous). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متقلب (capricious, changeable, choppy, fickle, flighty, fluctuant, fluky, freakish, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, jumpy, mercurial, mobile, moody, mutable, reversible, rough and tumble, shaky, skittish, temperamental, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, versatile, volatile, wavering, wayward, weather vane, whimsical, yeasty), ‏متغير (changeable, changing, fickle, inconstant, mutable, unsteady, variable, weathercock). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo), постоянно менящ се. (various references)

   

Czech

  

mìnlivý. (various references)

   

French

  

mouvementé. (various references)

   

German

  

wechselvoll. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szeszélyes (be capricious, capricious, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fitful, freakish, have a little finger ache, have moods, kinky, maggoty, mercurial, moody, peevish, petulant, skittish, wanton, whimsical). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

angefulchay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

inconstante (astatic, capricious, changeable, desultory, fanciful, fickle, flighty, giddy, impermanent, inconstant, light-minded, mutable, shifting, skittish, uncertain, unequable, unequal, unreliable, unstable, unsure, variable, versatile). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

непостоянный (casual, changeable, fast and loose, fickle, impermanent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, unabiding, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile, wanton), полный перемен. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cambiable (changeable, exchangeable, variable), variable (changeable, unsettled, up and down, variable, varying, wayward), no constante (changeable). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, erratic, faltering, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), istikrarsız (changeable, choppy, desultory, fluid, precarious, undecided, unequal, unstable, unsteady), değişken (capricious, changeable, choppy, erratic, factor, fickle, fitful, flexible, flexile, fluid, fluxional, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, inequable, labile, mercurial, mobile, mutable, protean, shifting, sliding, streaked, streaky, swinging, uncertain, unfunded, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, versatile), dönek (apostate, capricious, changeable, deserter, fickle, flukey, fluky, inconstant, lubricious, piker, protean, quitter, rat, Ratter, renegade, turnabout, turncoat, untrustworthy, versatile, volatile). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

непостійний (ambulatory, capricious, changeable, fickle, flighty, impermanent, instable, mercurial, non-permanent, shifting, unstable, unsteady, variant, volatile, voluble, weathercock), мінливий (capricious, changeable, chatoyant, chequered, choppy, floating, inconsistent, interchangeable, mutable, non-permanent, skittish, stayless, uncertain, vagrant, variable, varied, wanton, wavy, wayward). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

luôn luôn thay đổi, không ngừng biến chuyển; bất thường. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Changeful

Derivations

Words beginning with "changeful": changefully, changefulness, changefulnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Changeful"

Words rhyming with "changeful" (pronounced 'Change"ful'): Abuseful, Affrightful, Aidful, Amazeful, Amendful, Annoyful, Armful, Artful, Assistful, Avengeful, Aviseful, Awful, Baleful, Baneful, Barful, Bashful, Bateful, Batful, Beamful, Behooveful, Beliefful, Blameful, Blissful, Blitheful, Blushful, Boastful, Boatful, Bodeful, Bookful, Breathful, Bretful, Brimful, Capful, Careful, Causeful, Chanceful, Chargeful, Charmful, Cheerful, Choiceful, Complaintful, Contentful, Corruptful, Crimeful, Cropful, Cupful, Dareful, Darkful, Deathful, Debateful. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Changeful

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-g-h-l-n-u"

-2 letters: cageful.

-3 letters: canful, cangue, change, cuneal, engulf, fecula, flange, flench, fungal, gauche, glance, glucan, glunch, hangul, lacune, lagune, langue, launce, launch, nuchae, nuchal, uncage, unlace.

-4 letters: angel, angle, chafe, chang, chela, chufa, clang, clean, clung, faugh, fecal, flung, fugal, fugle, ganef, genua, glace, glean, gulch, hance, lance, laugh, leach, lehua, lunch, lunge, nucha.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-g-h-l-n-u"
 

+2 letters: changefully.

 

+4 letters: changefulness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Sounds
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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