mutable
liable or subject to change or alteration.
given to changing; constantly changing; fickle or inconstant: the mutable ways of fortune.
Computers. (in object-oriented programming) of or noting an object having properties whose values can change while the object itself maintains a unique identity.
Origin of mutable
1Other words for mutable
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Other words from mutable
- mu·ta·bil·i·ty [myoo-tuh-bil-i-tee] /ˌmyu təˈbɪl ɪ ti/ mu·ta·ble·ness, noun
- mu·ta·bly, adverb
- hy·per·mu·ta·ble, adjective
- hy·per·mu·ta·bly, adverb
- non·mut·a·ble, adjective
- non·mut·a·bly, adverb
- un·mu·ta·ble, adjective
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How to use mutable in a sentence
After just two episodes, it’s hard to get a sense of how mutable The Problem’s format will be.
The Problem With Jon Stewart Could Be Great, If It Ever Catches Up to the Present | Judy Berman | September 30, 2021 | TimeWarnecke, however, is skeptical about inferring phylogenetic relationships from viral sequences, which are notoriously mutable.
DNA’s Histone Spools Hint at How Complex Cells Evolved | Viviane Callier | May 10, 2021 | Quanta MagazineI knew vaguely that the history was slow and unremarkable during centuries of rural village life, then tumultuous and mutable as the area was enveloped by the burgeoning city.
In McAfee’s work, formal portraits become as mutable and dynamic as makeshift cellphone footage.
In the galleries: Personal and political perspectives on the past | Mark Jenkins | February 19, 2021 | Washington PostVortices can be remarkably stable, and yet they are also surprisingly mutable.
An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence | David H. Freedman | September 3, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
The mutable-Earth sign of Virgo is about negotiating virtue and vice.
The comic Flip Wilson used to use “The devil made me do it” as an endlessly mutable punch line.
Yet however sweet the hours, they pass away, and it is not much memory can save from the mutable, happy days of love.
The Man Between | Amelia E. BarrOne goes to the marriage bed, another to the grave; and all is mutable, uncertain, and transitory.
The Portland Sketch Book | VariousHis face was irradiated, his cold eyes glowed with a warmth and fire that more mercurial and mutable natures can never know.
The Beauty | Mrs. Wilson WoodrowSomething whispered that the happiness we at present enjoyed was set on mutable foundations.
Wieland; or The Transformation | Charles Brockden BrownAs to the motives which induce men to change the place of their abode, these must unavoidably be fleeting and mutable.
Wieland; or The Transformation | Charles Brockden Brown
British Dictionary definitions for mutable
/ (ˈmjuːtəbəl) /
able to or tending to change
astrology of or relating to four of the signs of the zodiac, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, which are associated with the quality of adaptability: Compare cardinal (def. 9), fixed (def. 10)
Origin of mutable
1Derived forms of mutable
- mutability or rare mutableness, noun
- mutably, adverb
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