Meanings
comparative more changeable · superlative most changeable
- Capable of being changed.
Synonyms: alterable, modifiable, variable, abateable, alterable, dynamic, editable, inconstant
- Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
The weather is very changeable today: we've had bright sunshine, clouds, wind and rain in the same half-hour.
1 more example
There will be no problems with visibility, or the highly changeable Highland weather, as Scotland basks in what is reported to be the country's hottest September day for more than a century.
2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and Pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48 - Capable of camouflaging itself by changing colour.
Synonyms: chameleonic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCapable of being changed.
adjectiveCapable of camouflaging itself by changing colour.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecapable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
adjectivesuch that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change
adjectivevarying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Late Latincambiāre“to change”
- Old Northern Frenchchaungeable
- Middle Englishchaungeable
- Englishchangeable
From Middle English chaungeable, from Old Northern French chaungeable, from Late Latin cambiāre (“to change”), equivalent to change + -able.
More words from Middle English, Old Northern French, Late Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek μετάβολος
- μετάβολος (metábolos)capable of being changed
Bulgarian променлив, непостоянен
- променлив (promenliv)capable of being changed
- непостоянен (nepostojanen)subject to sudden or frequent changes
Catalan canviable
- canviablecapable of being changed
Chinese Mandarin 可改變的 /可改变的, 可替換的 /可替换的
- 可改變的 /可改变的 (kě gǎibiàn de)capable of being changed
- 可替換的 /可替换的 (kě tìhuàn de)capable of being changed
- 多變 /多变 (duōbiàn)subject to sudden or frequent changes
- 善變 /善变 (shànbiàn)subject to sudden or frequent changes
- 變色的 /变色的 (biànsè de)capable of camouflaging
Esperanto ŝanĝebla
- ŝanĝeblacapable of being changed
Finnish vaihdettava, vaihdettavissa oleva
- vaihdettavacapable of being changed
- vaihdettavissa olevacapable of being changed
- vaihtelevasubject to sudden or frequent changes
- väriään vaihtavacapable of camouflaging
French changeable, changeant
- changeablecapable of being changed
- changeantsubject to sudden or frequent changes
German änderbar, veränderlich
- änderbarcapable of being changed
- veränderlichcapable of being changed
- wechselhaftsubject to sudden or frequent changes
- wandelbarsubject to sudden or frequent changes
Hungarian változtatható
- változtathatócapable of being changed
Irish luaineach
- luaineachsubject to sudden or frequent changes
Italian mutevole, ondivago
- mutevolecapable of being changed
- ondivagosubject to sudden or frequent changes
Japanese 変えられる, 変わりやすい
- 変えられる (kaerareru)capable of being changed
- 変わりやすい (kawariyasui)subject to sudden or frequent changes
Latin mūtābilis
- mūtābiliscapable of being changed
Māori taurangi
- taurangisubject to sudden or frequent changes
Portuguese mudável, modificável
- mudávelcapable of being changed
- modificávelcapable of being changed
- alterávelcapable of being changed
- variávelsubject to sudden or frequent changes
Romanian schimbabil, modificabil
- schimbabilcapable of being changed
- modificabilcapable of being changed
- schimbăciossubject to sudden or frequent changes
- schimbătorsubject to sudden or frequent changes
- nestatornicsubject to sudden or frequent changes
Russian изменя́емый, изме́нчивый
- изменя́емый (izmenjájemyj)capable of being changed
- изме́нчивый (izménčivyj)subject to sudden or frequent changes
- переме́нчивый (pereménčivyj)subject to sudden or frequent changes
- непостоя́нный (nepostojánnyj)subject to sudden or frequent changes
Slovak vrtošivý
- vrtošivýsubject to sudden or frequent changes
Spanish cambiable, cambiante
- cambiablecapable of being changed
- cambiantecapable of being changed
- variablesubject to sudden or frequent changes
- cambiantesubject to sudden or frequent changes
- tornadizosubject to sudden or frequent changes
Cite this entry
changeable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/changeable
“changeable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/changeable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “changeable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/changeable.
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