N. changeableness,
mutability,
inconstancy,
versatility,
mobility, instability, unstable equilibrium,
vacillation,
fluctuation,
vicissitude,
alternation,
restlessness, fidgets, disquiet,
disquietude,
inquietude, unrest, agitation, moon,
proteus,
chameleon,
quicksilver, shifting sands,
weathercock,
harlequin, cynthia of the minute, april showers, wheel of fortune,
transientness V. fluctuate, vary, waver,
flounder,
flicker,
flitter,
flit,
flutter,
shift,
shuffle,
shake,
totter,
tremble,
vacillate,
wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes, sway to and fro, shift to and fro, change and change about,
waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute) 605,
oscillate, vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes, alternate, have as many phases as the moon
Adj. changeable, changeful, changing,
mutable, variable,
checkered, ever changing,
protean, proteiform|,
versatile,
unstaid, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled,
fluctuating, restless,
agitated,
erratic,
fickle,
irresolute,
capricious, touch and go,
inconsonant, fitful,
spasmodic,
vibratory,
vagrant,
wayward,
desultory,
afloat, alternating, alterable,
plastic,
mobile,
transient,
wavering Phr. "a rolling stone gathers no moss", pictra mossa non fa muschis, honores mutant mores, varium et mutabile semper femina
N. motion, movement, move, going, unrest, stream, flow,
flux, run, course,
stir, evolution,
kinematics, telekinesis, step, rate,
pace,
tread,
stride,
gait, port,
footfall,
cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity,
clip, progress,
locomotion, journey, voyage, transit,
restlessness,
mobility, movableness, motive power, laws of motion,
mobilization V. be in motion, move, go,
hie,
gang,
budge,
stir, pass,
flit, hover about, hover round, hover about,
shift, slide,
glide, roll, roll on, flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along,
wander, walk, change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters,
dodge, keep going, keep moving, put in motion, set in motion, move,
impel,
propel, render movable,
mobilize Adj. moving, in motion,
transitional,
motory, motive,
shifting, movable,
mobile,
mercurial, unquiet, restless,
nomadic,
erratic Adv. under way, on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march
Phr. eppur si muove, es bildet ein talent sich in der stille, sich ein charakter in dem strom der welt
N. deviation,
swerving, obliquation|,
warp, refraction,
flection,
flexion,
sweep,
deflection,
deflexure, declination,
diversion,
digression, depart from,
aberration,
divergence,
zigzag,
detour,
divagation, wandering,
vagrancy,
evagation, bypaths and crooked ways,
byroad,
sidling, knight's move at chess
V. alter one's course,
deviate, depart from, turn,
trend, bend, curve,
swerve,
heel, bear off,
gybe, wear,
intervert,
deflect,
divert, divert from its course, put on a new scent,
shift,
shunt, draw aside,
crook,
warp,
stray,
straggle,
sidle,
diverge, tralineate|,
digress,
wander, wind, twist,
meander,
veer,
tack, divagate, sidetrack, turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from, wheel, steer clear of,
ramble,
rove, drift, go astray, go adrift,
yaw,
dodge, step aside, ease off, make way for,
shy, fly off at a tangent, glance off, wheel about, face about, turn to the right about, face to the right about,
waddle, go out of one's way, lose one's way
Adj. deviating,
aberrant,
errant,
excursive,
discursive,
devious,
desultory, loose,
rambling,
stray,
erratic,
vagrant, undirected,
circuitous, indirect,
zigzag, crab-like
Adv. astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways,
circuitously, obliquely,
sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard
N. caprice, fancy,
humor,
whim,
whimsy,
whimsey,
whimwham,
crotchet, capriccio,
quirk,
freak,
maggot,
fad,
vagary,
prank, fit,
flimflam,
escapade,
boutade, wild-goose chase,
capriciousness,
kink V. be capricious, have a maggot in the brain, take it into one's head, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, play fantastic tricks, tourner casaque
Adj. capricious,
erratic,
eccentric, fitful,
hysterical, full of whims,
maggoty, inconsistent,
fanciful,
fantastic,
whimsical,
crotchety,
kinky, particular,
humorsome,
freakish,
skittish,
wanton,
wayward, contrary,
captious, arbitrary,
unconformable, penny wise and pound foolish,
fickle,
frivolous,
sleeveless,
giddy, volatile
Adv. by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason
Phr. nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi, the deuce is in him
