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fickle adjective [ ˈfɪk(ə)l ]

• changing frequently, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections.
• "celebs trying to appeal to an increasingly fickle public"
Similar: capricious, changeable, variable, volatile, mercurial, vacillating, fitful, irregular, inconstant, disloyal, undependable, unstable, unsteady, unfaithful, faithless, irresolute, flighty, giddy, skittish, erratic, impulsive, unpredictable, random, blowing hot and cold, labile, mutable,
Opposite: constant, stable,
Origin: Old English ficol ‘deceitful’, of Germanic origin.


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