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MUTABLE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to undergo genetic mutuation

Example:

It is likely, too, that the chromosomes of all eubacteria are as mutable as that of E. coli

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

changeable; changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature

Example:

a mutable foreign policy

Synonyms:

changeable; mutable

Classified under:

Adjectives

Antonym:

immutable (not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature)

Derivation:

mutability; mutableness (the quality of being capable of mutation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Prone to frequent change; inconstant

Example:

the mutable ways of fortune

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

inconstant (likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable)

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