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Definition
capable of or tending to change in form, quality, or nature- a mutable substance
- mutable viruses
- the mutable ways of fortune
- mutable weather patterns
- How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of miseryShelley, Mary -- Frankenstein
- a mutable foreign policy
- Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
- My penance, constant in degree, is mutable in kind: one of its variants is tranquillity.Bierce, Ambrose -- Can Such Things Be?
- In the distance it rumbled, low, deep, reverberating, and near at hand it was a thing of mutable mood.Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
- It was red, mutable, shrouded in shadows, terrible like her mood.Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
- The image of a solitary (ipsorelative) mutable (aliorelative) man.James Joyce -- Ulysses
- Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.Henrik Ibsen -- An Enemy of the People
- Our friendship's more mutable than that.Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
- Mutable time-awareness danced around him.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- She could see through it, as if she were staring through printed fabric: everything going transparent, as mutable as water.Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
- The mutable corners of the pattern tickled her mind like feathers brushed against sensitive skin.Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
- He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- An extremely easy amendment process would make the Constitution too mutable.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- An extraordinary mutability has, by this means, been introduced into their legislation.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- The boy's mind flamed with bright streaming images, sharp as gems, mutable as chameleons.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel