fickle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fickle	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for fickle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fickle adj marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" Synonym(s): fickle, volatile 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" Synonym(s): erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fickle \Fic"kle\, a. [OE. fikel untrustworthy, deceitful, AS. ficol, fr. fic, gefic, fraud, deceit; cf. f[be]cen deceit, OS. f[?]kn, OHG. feichan, Icel. feikn portent. Cf. {Fidget}.] Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. --Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. --Dryden. Syn: Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable; inconsonant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful; capricious; veering; shifting.