mutable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
    changeable.
    • a mutable substance
    • the mutable ways of fortune
    • mutable weather patterns
    • a mutable foreign policy

WordNet

Mu"ta*ble adjective
Etymology
L. mutabilis, fr. mutare to change. See Move.
Definitions
  1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.
    Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South.
  2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn. -- Changeable; alterable; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; inconstant; variable; fickle.

Webster 1913