fickly

Meanings

• adjective

  Given to change suddenly and unpredictably; unstable or unreliable.

  - "She has a fickly changing mood."
  - "His fickly loyalty made it difficult to trust him."
  - "The fickly weather made it hard to plan outdoor activities."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with fickly
tickly , sticky , slickly

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Variants

List of all variants of fickly that leads to same result
fickle , fickleness , ficklenesses , fickler , ficklest , fickly

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Etymology

origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

Originally meant 'given to the gods' or 'belonging to the gods'. Later, it came to mean 'capricious' or 'unreliable'.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'fickle' comes from the Old English word 'ficolian', which meant 'to choose' or 'to select'.

2. The term 'fickle finger of fate' is used in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' to describe an unpredictable or capricious turn of events.

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Quotes

Quotes by authors and personalities

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

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How to Memorize "fickly"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a weather vane or a flag in the wind, changing direction unpredictably.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with the image of a person who frequently changes their mind or with the idea of unpredictability.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Remember the phrase 'fickle as the wind' to help memorize the meaning.

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