Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Capable of or subject to change or alteration.
- adj. Prone to frequent change; inconstant: mutable weather patterns.
- adj. Tending to undergo genetic mutation: a mutable organism; a mutable gene.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being altered in form, qualities, or nature; subject to change; changeable.
- Changeable or inconstant in mind or feelings; unsettled; unstable; liable to change.
- Synonyms Alterable.
- Unsteady, wavering, variable, irresolute, fickle, vacillating.
Wiktionary
- adj. Changeable; inclined to mutate.
- adj. programming, of a variable Having a value that is changeable during program execution.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.
- adj. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
Etymologies
- From Latin mutabilis ("liable to change"); mutate + -able. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin mūtābilis, from mūtāre, to change; see mutate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Some give this sense of it: "So mutable is even the angelical nature that God would not trust angels with their own integrity; if he had, they would all have done as some did, left their first estate; but he saw it necessary to give them supernatural grace to confirm them.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“Not always smoothly — Peirce himself parted ways with his fellow pragmatist William James, largely over the idea that truth was mutable, that is, what is "true" can become not true and even then true again, depending on the situation.”
“Your sign is ruled by Mercury and is what's known as a mutable sign - which means changeable.”
Holly Cara Price: Weekend Horoscoop* for May 16-27, 2009 ~ sensory overload edition
“Yet news sites and their readers are not accustomed to such "mutable" stories.”
Shouting conservative accused of assaulting elderly woman at health care rally
“The 'mutable' in all creatures is the combination of the five primal essences.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
“On the surface, it seemed like a kind of mutable 8-bit string (a feature sometimes requested by users of Python 2).”
“Although some programmers might focus on bytearrays as a kind of mutable string, I find their use as an efficient means for assembling messages from fragments to be much more interesting.”
“Zeyd, who felt uncomfortable with the idea of mutable avatars - yes, God could do all things, but this raised difficult questions about the soul - suggested, "The great flowerings of civilization on Earth came about when different cultures met, didn't they?”
“IMO, the ideal is to default to purely functional (the concept expressed by requiring the "mutable" keyword) and default to static typing (the concept expressed by requiring the "dynamic" keyword.)”
“F# has a "mutable" keyword, since nothing is mutable by default.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mutable’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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Dominant/Submissive
abusive, adamant, autocratic, bossy, bullheaded, bumptious, certain, cock-a-hoop, cocksure, cocky, commanding, compelling and 189 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Cepstrums
to cepstrumize a word is to reverse its 1st 4 characters in the way that "cepstrum" was derived from "spectrum" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum...
acedy, stutter, tipster, toosh, spitter, tapster, spatter, tutster, teaser, saeter, sooth, tierer and 202 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 567 more...
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Good for Academics
Gahh!! Study!
supplant, usurp, finagle, winnow, draconian, abut, collude, swindle, objectify, incite, decadent, obstinate and 327 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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harrisj's Words
skeumorph, liminal, enervated, essential, moiety, motley, haphazard, bone-picker, resolute, petard, jigsaw, schism and 117 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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GRE Vocab
laconic, penchant, charlatan, inimical, exhort, avuncular, quandary, irascible, trestle, repudiate, subterfuge, rapine and 132 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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