'Fickle' definitions:
Definition of 'fickle'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" [syn: fickle, volatile]
adjective
Definition of 'Fickle'
From: GCIDE
- Fickle \Fic"kle\, a. [OE. fikel untrustworthy, deceitful, AS. ficol, fr. fic, gefic, fraud, deceit; cf. f[=a]cen deceit, OS. f?kn, OHG. feichan, Icel. feikn portent. Cf. Fidget.] Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- They know how fickle common lovers are. --Dryden.
- Syn: Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable; inconsonant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful; capricious; veering; shifting. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fickle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adrift,
- afloat,
- agnostic,
- alternating,
- ambiguous,
- ambitendent,
- ambivalent,
- amorphous,
- at loose ends,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- coquettish,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- derelict,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dicey,
- disaffected,
- disloyal,
- dizzy,
- double-minded,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- dying,
- eccentric,
- ephemeral,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- evanescent,
- faddish,
- fading,
- faithless,
- false,
- fanciful,
- fast and loose,
- fence-sitting,
- fence-straddling,
- fitful,
- fleeting,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flirtatious,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- freakish,
- frivolous,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- giddy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- incalculable,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indemonstrable,
- infirm,
- infirm of purpose,
- insubstantial,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresolved,
- irresponsible,
- light,
- lubricious,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- momentary,
- moody,
- mortal,
- mugwumpian,
- mugwumpish,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- not true to,
- of bad faith,
- of two minds,
- passing,
- perishable,
- polysemous,
- quicksilver,
- rambling,
- recreant,
- restless,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- short-lived,
- shuffling,
- skeptical,
- skittish,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- temperamental,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- ticklish,
- touch-and-go,
- toying,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- trothless,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- unconfirmable,
- uncontrolled,
- unconvinced,
- undecided,
- undependable,
- undetermined,
- undisciplined,
- undivinable,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unfaithful,
- unfixed,
- unforeseeable,
- unloyal,
- unpersuaded,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unreliable,
- unresolved,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsure,
- untrue,
- untrustworthy,
- unverifiable,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy