| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Following no predictable pattern: capricious, changeable, erratic, fantastic, fantastical, fickle, freakish, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, temperamental, ticklish, uncertain, unpredictable, unsteady, variable, volatile, whimsical. See CHANGE, CONTINUE. 2. Capable of or liable to change: alterable, changeable, fluid, inconstant, mutable, uncertain, unsettled, unsteady, variable, variant. Archaic : various. See CHANGE. 3. Lacking stability: infirm, insecure, precarious, shaky, tottering, tottery, unsteady, unsure, weak, wobbly. See CHANGE, STRONG. 4. Not physically steady or firm: precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, tottery, unsteady, wobbly. See FLEXIBLE.
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