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etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship. "The inconstant moon." Shak. While we, inquiring phantoms of a day, Inconstant as the shadows we survey! Boyse.

In an inconstant manner.

Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.

Given to change; inconstant. [Obs.] Some are so studiously changeling. Boyle.

One apt to change; an inconstant person.

rue to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife. A most unnatural and faithless service. Shak.

te; as, a fast man; a fast liver. Thackeray. Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another "Play fast and loose with faith." Shak. Fast and l…

r firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden.

Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. The flux nature of all things here. Barrow.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant. The merely human,the temporary and fluxional. Coleridge. Fluxional structure (Geol.), fluidal structure.

One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.

Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton. [Obs.] "O giglot fortune!" Shak.

The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness. For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love. Spenser.

; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant.

A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.

Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron.

Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.

Wavering; unsettled; inconstant. [Obs.] Holland.

Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle. "The slippery state of kings." Denham.