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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Fickle \Fic"kle\, a. [OE. fikel untrustworthy, deceitful, AS.
     ficol, fr. fic, gefic, fraud, deceit; cf. f[=a]cen deceit,
     OS. f?kn, OHG. feichan, Icel. feikn portent. Cf. Fidget.]
     Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a
     changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant;
     capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           They know how fickle common lovers are.  --Dryden.
  
     Syn: Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable;
          inconsonant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful;
          capricious; veering; shifting.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Fickle \Fic"kle\, a. [OE. fikel untrustworthy, deceitful, AS.
     ficol, fr. fic, gefic, fraud, deceit; cf. f[=a]cen deceit,
     OS. f?kn, OHG. feichan, Icel. feikn portent. Cf. Fidget.]
     Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a
     changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant;
     capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. --Shak.
  
           They know how fickle common lovers are.  --Dryden.
  
     Syn: Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable;
          inconsonant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful;
          capricious; veering; shifting.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  fickle
       adj 1: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or
              attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile
              affections" [syn: volatile]
       2: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior";
          "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a
          quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment,
          utterly fragile the next" [syn: erratic, mercurial, quicksilver(a)]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  fickle
     Αγγλικά a.
     άστατος, ευμετάβλητος

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  fickle
     a.
     Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or
  reliable.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To deceive, flatter.
     2 (lb en transitive UK dialectal) To puzzle, perplex, nonplus.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  Fickle
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  fickle
     a.
     Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or
  reliable.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To deceive, flatter.
     2 (lb en transitive UK dialectal) To puzzle, perplex, nonplus.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  Fickle
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  fickle
     a.
     Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or
  reliable.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To deceive, flatter.
     2 (lb en transitive UK dialectal) To puzzle, perplex, nonplus.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  Fickle
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  fickle
     a.
     Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or
  reliable.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To deceive, flatter.
     2 (lb en transitive UK dialectal) To puzzle, perplex, nonplus.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  Fickle
     n.
     (surname: en).

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  fickle
     Englanti a.
     ailahteleva, epäluotettava, mielipidettään yllättäen muuttava

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  fickle
     Engelska a.
     nyckfull, ombytlig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Fickle /fˈɪkəl/
  متقلّب

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  fickle //ˈfɪk.əl// 
  непостоя́нен, отмятащ се, проме́нлив
  quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  fickle /fˈɪkəl/
  vrtošivý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  fickle /fˈɪkəl/
  schwankend, wechselhaft 
   see: fickle weather
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  fickle /fˈɪkəl/
  wankelmütig 
     Synonym: inconstant
  
   see: more fickle, most fickle
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  fickle /fˈɪkəl/ 
  flatterhaft , launenhaft 
           Note: person

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  fickle /fˈɪkəl/
  
  ευμετάβλητος, αλλοπρόσαλλος, ασταθής

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  fickle //ˈfɪk.əl// 
  1. vaihteleva
  changeable
  2. ailahteleva, huikenteleva, häilyvä, vaihteleva
  quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  fickle /fˈɪkəl/ 
  1. चंचल
        "He is a fickle minded person."
  2. अस्थिर
        "Climate at hill stations is very fickle."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  fickle /fˈɪkəl/
  hirovit, nepostojan, nestalan, promjenjiv

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  fickle /fˈɪkəl/
  1. változékony
  2. változó
  3. ingatag
  4. állhatatlan
  5. szeszélyes
  6. ingadozó
  7. megbízhatatlan
  8. bizonytalan
  9. lelkileg ingadozó

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  fickle //ˈfɪk.əl// 
  気が多い, 気まぐれ
  quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  fickle /ˈfɪkəl/ 
    zmienny, niestały

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  fickle //ˈfɪk.əl// 
  ombytlig, nyckfull
  quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  fickle /fˈɪkəl/
  1. dönek, kararsız, (colloq.) maymun iştahlı. fickleness  döneklik, kararsızlık.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈfɪkəɫ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  164 Moby Thesaurus words for "fickle":
     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
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 变幻无常的,浮燥的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 变幻无常的,浮燥的,薄情的

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