Associations to the word «Fickle»

Wiktionary

FICKLE, adjective. Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable.
FICKLE, adjective. (figurative) changeable
FICKLE, verb. (transitive) To deceive, flatter.
FICKLE, verb. (transitive) (UK dialectal) To puzzle, perplex, nonplus.

Dictionary definition

FICKLE, adjective. Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections".
FICKLE, adjective. 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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope