Chapter Words Expressing Abstract Relations of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

(Adverbs). In exchange.

2°. Complex Changes

140. Mutability (Substantives), changeableness, inconstancy, variableness, mobility, instability, unsteadiness, vacillation, unrest, restlessness, slipperiness, impermanence, fragility, fluctuation, vicissitude, alternation, vibration, oscillation 314, flux, ebbing and flowing, ebbs and flows, ups and downs, fidgets, fugitiveness, disquiet, disquietude.

A Proteus, chameleon, quick-silver, weathercock, a harlequin.

(Phrases). April showers; the wheel of fortune; the Cynthia of the minute.

Alternation, subalternation.

(Verbs). To fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, vibrate, flicker, flitter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, ebb and flow, turn and turn about, change and change about.

To fade, pass away like a cloud, shadow, or dream.

(Adjectives). Mutable, changeable, variable, ever-changing, inconstant, impermanent, unsteady, unstable, protean, proteiform, unfixed, fluctuating, vacillating, shifting, versatile, restless, erratic, unsettled, mobile, fickle, wavering, flickering, flitting, flittering, fluttering, oscillating, vibratory, vagrant, wayward, desultory, afloat, alternating, plastic, disquiet, alterable, casual, unballasted.

(Phrase). Subject to alteration.

Frail, tottering, shaking, shaky, trembling, fugitive, ephemeral, transient 111, fading, fragile, deciduous, slippery, unsettled, irresolute 605, rocky, groggy.

(Phrases). Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis; changeable as the moon, as a weather-cock; sic transit gloria mundi; here to-day and gone to-morrow.

141. Immutability (Substantives), stability, unchangeableness, constancy, permanence, persistence 106, invariableness, durability, steadiness 604, immobility, fixedness, stableness, settledness, stabiliment, firmness, stiffness, anchylosis, solidity, aplomb, ballast, incommutability, insusceptibility, irrevocableness.

(Phrases). The law of the Medes and Persians; nolumus leges Angliœ mutari.

Rock, pillar, tower, foundation.

(Verbs). To be permanent, etc. 265, to stand, remain.

To settle, establish, stablish, fix, set, stabilitate, retain, keep, hold, make sure, nail, clinch, rivet, fasten 43, settle down, set on its legs.

(Adjectives). Immutable, incommutable, unchangeable, unaltered, unalterable, not to be changed, constant, permanent, invariable, undeviating, stable, durable 265, perennial 110, valid.

Fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, confirmed, immovable, irremovable, rooted, stablished, established, inconvertible, stereotyped, indeclinable, settled, etc., stationary, stagnant.

Moored, at anchor, on a rock, firmly seated, established, etc.

Indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, inextinguishable, irreducible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indestructible, undying, imperishable, indelible, indeciduous, insusceptible of change.