MUTABLE

mutable

(adjective) tending to undergo genetic mutuation; “It is likely, too, that the chromosomes of all eubacteria are as mutable as that of E. coli”

mutable, changeable

(adjective) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; “a mutable substance”; “mutable weather patterns”; “a mutable foreign policy”

mutable

(adjective) prone to frequent change; inconstant; “the fickle and mutable nature of truth”; “the mutable ways of fortune”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

mutable (comparative more mutable, superlative most mutable)

Changeable, dynamic, evolutive; inclined to change, evolve, mutate.

(programming, of a variable) Having a value that is changeable during program execution.

Antonyms

• immutable

Noun

mutable (plural mutables)

Something mutable; a variable or value that can change.

Homophones

• muteable

Anagrams

• atumble

Source: Wiktionary


Mu"ta*ble, a. Etym: [L. mutabilis, fr. mutare to change. See Move.]

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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(adjective) marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; “a modest apartment”; “too modest to wear his medals”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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