FICKLE

[`fɪkl]

непостоянный, переменчивый; ненадежный, неустойчивый, переменный

fickle: translation

adrift, afloat, agnostic, alternating, ambiguous, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, at loose ends, brittle, capricious, chancy, changeable, changeful, coquettish, corruptible, deciduous, derelict, desultory, deviable, dicey, disaffected, disloyal, dizzy, double-minded, doubting, dubious, dying, eccentric, ephemeral, equivocal, erratic, evanescent, faddish, fading, faithless, FALSE, fanciful, fast and loose, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fitful, fleeting, flickering, flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuating, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, freakish, frivolous, fugacious, fugitive, giddy, hesitant, hesitating, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indemonstrable, infirm, infirm of purpose, insubstantial, irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible, light, lubricious, mazy, mercurial, momentary, moody, mortal, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, not true to, of bad faith, of two minds, passing, perishable, polysemous, quicksilver, rambling, recreant, restless, roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, skeptical, skittish, spasmodic, spineless, temperamental, temporal, temporary, ticklish, touch-and-go, toying, transient, transitive, transitory, trothless, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undecided, undependable, undetermined, undisciplined, undivinable, undurable, unenduring, unfaithful, unfixed, unforeseeable, unloyal, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unreliable, unresolved, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure, untrue, untrustworthy, unverifiable, vacillating, vagrant, variable, versatile, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy

fickle: translation

▪ be

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

▪ notoriously

▪

The television world was a notoriously fickle one.

Fickle is used with these nouns: ↑nature, ↑weather

fickle: translation

fickle UK US /ˈfɪkl/ adjective

► likely to change suddenly and without warning: »

Do Americans know how to invest in fickle markets?

»

The art market is as fickle and hard to predict as any other.

► likely to change your opinion or your feelings suddenly and without a good reason: »

Brand loyalty is hard to get from the notoriously fickle internet community.

fickleness noun [U]

► »

Many e-businesses are complaining about the fickleness of investors.

непостоянный, переменный

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• ненадежный

• неустойчивый

fickle [ˊfɪkl] a

непостоя́нный, переме́нчивый; ненадёжный