CHANGEFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does changeful mean? 

• CHANGEFUL (adjective)
  The adjective CHANGEFUL has 1 sense:

1. such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change

  Familiarity information: CHANGEFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGEFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change

Synonyms:

changeable; changeful

Context example:

changeable prices

Similar:

adjustable (capable of being regulated)

volatile (tending to vary often or widely)

reversible (capable of assuming or producing either of two states)

quick-drying (of a liquid substance that dries quickly)

quick-change (adept at changing from one thing to another especially changing costumes)

open-ended (allowing for future changes or revisions)

mutable (tending to undergo genetic mutuation)

mobile (capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another)

kaleidoscopic; kaleidoscopical (continually shifting or rapidly changing)

jittering (undergoing small rapid variations)

fluid; mobile (affording change (especially in social status))

fluid; unstable (subject to change; variable)

erratic; fickle; mercurial; quicksilver (liable to sudden unpredictable change)

distortable (capable of having the meaning altered or twisted)

checkered (marked by changeable fortune)

astatic (not static or stable)

Also:

inconstant (likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable)

exchangeable (suitable to be exchanged)

Attribute:

changeability; changeableness (the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change)

Derivation:

changefulness (the quality of being changeable and variable)

 Context examples 

I think so: he is very changeful and abrupt.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Often, of an evening, when he sat at the window, his desk and papers before him, he would cease reading or writing, rest his chin on his hand, and deliver himself up to I know not what course of thought; but that it was perturbed and exciting might be seen in the frequent flash and changeful dilation of his eye.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Lady Lynn was a large and stout personage of about forty, very erect, very haughty-looking, richly dressed in a satin robe of changeful sheen: her dark hair shone glossily under the shade of an azure plume, and within the circlet of a band of gems.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)