changeable

adj
/ˈt͡ʃeɪn.d͡ʒə.bəl/

Etymology

From Middle English chaungeable, from Old Northern French chaungeable, from Late Latin cambiāre (“to change”), equivalent to change + -able.

  1. derived from cambiāre — “to change
  2. derived from chaungeable
  3. inherited from chaungeable

Definitions

  1. Capable of being changed.

  2. 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.
    • 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.
  3. Capable of camouflaging itself by changing colour.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at changeable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at changeable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at changeable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA