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Vocabulary

Fickle vs changeable

What is the differnce between fickle and changeable when describe people's personality?

He is too fickle( or changeable). he is nice at one moment and at the other moment he is really mean to me.
  

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A changeable person rejects what he has once embraced in order to take up something new; a fickle person likes many things successively or at the same time. Changeableness arises from a lack of fixed principles; fickleness, from a lightness of mind. Superstitious people may say that men are changeable, but women are fickle.

  • A changeable person rejects what he has once embraced in order to take up something new; a fickle person likes many things successively or at the same time.
  • Changeableness arises from a lack of fixed principles; fickleness, from a lightness of mind.
  • Superstitious people may say that men are changeable, but women are fickle.
  • In your sentence, you could also use the word 'inconstant'.
  • Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
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A changeable person rejects what he has once embraced in order to take up something new; a fickle person likes many things successively or at the same time. Changeableness arises from a lack of fixed principles; fickleness, from a lightness of mind. Superstitious people may say that men are changeable, but women are fickle.

In your sentence, you could also use the word 'inconstant'.

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