| mutable \Mu"ta*ble\, adj. [L. mutabilis, fr.
mutare to change.] 1. Likely to change; capable of alteration; subject to change; 2.
Capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable
substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune" [Syn: Changeable; alterable; unstable;
unsettled; inconstant; variable.]
[Ant: Immutable; constant;
stable.]
"Things of the most
accidental and mutable nature." --South.
"Most mutable wishes.''
--Byron |