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English Dictionary: mutable by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mutable
adj
  1. capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy"
    Synonym(s): mutable, changeable
    Antonym(s): changeless, immutable
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mutable \Mu"ta*ble\, a. [L. mutabilis, fr. mutare to change. See
      {Move}.]
      1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in
            form, qualities, or nature.
  
                     Things of the most accidental and mutable nature.
                                                                              --South.
  
      2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle.
            [bd]Most mutable wishes.[b8] --Byron.
  
      Syn: Changeable; alterable; unstable; unsteady; unsettled;
               wavering; inconstant; variable; fickle.
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