inconstant

Adjective

Meaning

Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

variable unstable volatile fluctuating changeable mutable wavering fickle unsteady shifting inconsistent unreliable uneven erratic capricious
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Antonyms

constant liege set good certain true
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Phrases with the word

be inconstant inconstant person more inconstant indicating inconstant temperatures involving a inconstant temperature occurring at inconstant temperature

Anagrams

Constantin

Examples

O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. William Shakespeare

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant. Haruki Murakami

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine. James Joyce

He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature. Plutarch

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. Walter Pater

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant. Mark Helprin

Close letter words and terms

inconstance inconstancie inconstancy inconstant person inconstantly inconstantness