Text: 1 likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly<a fickle friendship that was on and off over the years>Synonymscapricious, changeable, changeful, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatileRelated Wordsaimless, erratic, haphazard, irregular, random; hesitating, shilly-shallying, vacillating, wavering; undependable, unreliable, untrustworthy; adaptable, mobile, protean, versatileNear Antonymsequable, even, uniform; abiding, durable, lasting, permanent, persistent; dependable, reliable, trustworthyAntonymscertain, changeless, constant, immutable, invariable, settled, stable, steady, unchangeable 2 not true in oneʼs allegiance to someone or something<when the familyʼs fortune disappeared, so did their fickle friends>— see faithless

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