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Definition: Changeful |
ChangefulAdjective1. 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: ChangefulSynonym: changeable (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unchangeable (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Changeful |
| Etymologies containing "changeful": AEolotropic. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
| 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. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Pindar | Hope, which most of all guides the changeful mind of mortals. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "changeful": changefully, changefulness, changefulnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| 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) |
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. | |
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| 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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