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fickle

/ˈfɪk.əl/

Meanings
  • adjective

    Unreliable or unstable in affections, intentions, or allegiances; capricious.

    - "Her fickle nature made it impossible to predict her actions."
    - "Despite his promises, he proved to be a fickle friend."
  • adjective

    Easily influenced and untrustworthy.

    - "The fickle crowd changed its opinion with every new speaker."
    - "The fickle politician switched parties to gain more support."

Pronunciation
  1. /ˈfɪk.əl/



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  2. /ˈfɪk.əl/



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Rhymes
Words rhyming with fickle
hiccle , piccolo , tickle
Variants
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fickle , fickleness , ficklenesses , fickler , ficklest , fickly
Etymology
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Old English 'flican' meaning 'to play' or 'to deceive'; related to Old Norse 'flekka' meaning 'to bend' or 'to twist'.


Trivia
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  1. The term 'fickle' is often used to describe the behavior of the weather.

  2. In ancient Greece, the goddess Tyche was considered the goddess of fortune and fate, and her fickleness was represented by a wheel with changing fortunes.

  3. The term 'fickle-minded' was first used in English literature in the late 14th century.


Related Concepts
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  1. Capricious: Behaving in a way that is unpredictable or subject to whim; impulsive and unstable.

  2. Volatile: Easily influenced or changed, often in an extreme or unpredictable way.


Quotes
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  1. The Weak will suck up to the Strong, for fear of losing their jobs and their money and all the "fickle" power they wielded only twenty-four hours ago.

    - Hunter S. Thompson,{it}Rolling Stone{/it},11 Nov. 2004
  2. A failed play was a denial of what Odets was owed, for he was chasing the public no differently than did his bourgeois and nonrevolutionary contemporaries, a public as "fickle" as it always was and is.

    - Arthur Miller,{it}Harper's{/it},March 1999
  3. The corporate fan who has replaced the core fan is a "fickle" beast, choosy about which games he'll use his precious free time to attend.

    - E. M. Swift,{it}Sports Illustrated{/it},15 May 2000
  4. War is like hard-drug abuse or a "fickle" lover, an apparently contradictory bolt of compulsion, agony and ecstasy that draws you back in the face of better judgment time and time again.

    - Anthony Loyd,{it}My War Gone By{/it},1999

Culture
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Fickle has been used in literature to describe characters who are unpredictable and unfaithful in their emotions or actions. For instance, in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', Ophelia is described as a 'fickle maiden'. In music, the term 'fickle finger' refers to a pianist's agility and ability to play complex passages.

How to Memorize "fickle"

  1. visualize

    - Visualize a person who cannot make up their mind or keeps changing their opinion. Imagine a pendulum swinging back and forth to represent fickleness.

  2. associate

    - Associate the word 'fickle' with the image of a leaf in the wind, constantly changing direction.

  3. mnemonics

    - Create a mnemonic using the first letter of each definition: 'Unreliable, unstable, unpredictable, and easily influenced' forms the acronym UUUEI.


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