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mutable - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'mutable' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Mutable [ a.]
- Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.
- Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle.

Meaning of 'mutable' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . mutable [ a]
Meaning (1):
- capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
Example in sentence:
  • a mutable foreign policy;
  • a mutable substance;
  • mutable weather patterns
2 . mutable [ s]
Meaning (2):
- tending to undergo genetic mutuation
Example in sentence:
  • It is likely, too, that the chromosomes of all eubacteria are as mutable as that of E. coli
Meaning (3):
- prone to frequent change; inconstant
Example in sentence:
  • the fickle and mutable nature of truth;
  • the mutable ways of fortune