Definition of inconstant in English:

inconstant

adjective ɪnˈkɒnst(ə)ntɪnˈkɑnstənt

1Frequently changing; variable or irregular.
频繁变化的；易变的；无规律的
the exact dimensions aren't easily measured since they are inconstant
它们的确切尺寸不易测量，因为它们变化频繁。
Example sentencesExamples
- The star is still inconstant, however; modern measurements show that, even from one day to the next, T Tauri's brightness can change by as much as half its typical output.
- The inconstant Moon is well named because the closeness of the Moon to Earth changes with the Sun's tidal force - its differential gravitation.
- Emily, the youngest was brown-haired and had inconstant hazel eyes that commonly bordered on green.
- I think the life of an actor has a divinity to it; its rhythms are so inconsistent and inconstant.
- The world is cruel and rancid, the body is a receptacle of foul gasses and inconstant emotions, and the soul is a paltry fiction.
- But fire is a strange stuff to make the origin of all things, for it is the most inconstant and changeable.
- She had dirty blonde hair which had that straight, heavy look that often comes with inconstant grooming.
- As more information becomes available, the description, definition, and diagnostic criteria may undergo revision, although we do not usually redefine the disease to include inconstant features.
- But if pushed, I would wearily point out that the inconstant luminosity was a statement about the haphazard nature of life, about how the world could be either light or dark.
- It all underscores the fact that the administration of the resource management legislation in New Zealand is incredibly uneven and inconstant around the country.
- Joshua Morgan's life was ruled by inconstant weather.
- Cuts in foreign affairs and defense spending, inattention to the tools of statecraft, and inconstant leadership are making it increasingly difficult to sustain American influence around the world.
- When I ask people why they live in a place so unforgiving, I get straight, immediate answers: wide-open spaces, inconstant weather, even isolation, traits that would discourage many.
- The outline of the bright, inconstant moon attends strictly to the position of the sun.
- ‘Good’ and ‘evil’ are inconstant names applied haphazardly by different men to what attracts or repels them.
- At a more specific level, and going back several centuries, histories of national economics show inconstant associations of free trade with economic growth.
- Alas, the social scene is as fluid and inconstant as everything else in this turbulent country.
- It knows that attention on the part of the western powers is inconstant.
- And yet it seems to me that much of what we encounter in our religious life may be called ‘crypto-religious’: elusive, inconstant, hard to define, and yet genuine even so.
- This Stoic tradition was quite clear that respect for human dignity could move us to appropriate action, both personal and social, without our having to rely at all on the messier and more inconstant motive of compassion.
Synonyms
variable, varying, changeable, changing, irregular, shifting, fluctuating, inconsistent, not constant, unsettled, unfixed, mutable, unstable, unsteady
technical labile
rare changeful, fluctuant, variational
1. 1.1 (of a person or their behaviour) not faithful and dependable.
  （人，行为）不忠实的，不可靠的
  the most inconstant man in the world
  Example sentencesExamples
  One can be physically promiscuous without being emotionally unfaithful, flighty, or inconstant.
  Among her pithy observations was the fact that ‘men are vile inconstant toads’; and that ‘civility costs nothing and buys everything’.
  The individual members of this particular community are by no means all wonderfully multifaceted, but they are at least inconstant, generous and judgmental, visionary and blinkered, capable of extreme kindness and gross inhumanity.
  In addition, feminist readings have detected in city comedy the salient traits of a dominant early modern discourse that constructs women as naturally incontinent and inconstant.
  And that tells voters (as it probably should) that you're inconstant and unserious.
  They're almost cheerfully callous and casually inconstant.
  Early in the story, the narrator establishes that Diane is representative of her sex in being deceptive, manipulative, and inconstant.
  But with Kerry the charge isn't that he's inconstant.
  Hamlet scorns his mother and denounces women as frail, inconstant, and deceitful.
  He was an inconstant man, impulsive and greedy.
  You either fear his humour or my negligence, that you call in question the continuance of his love: is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?
  Everyone I should have been able to count on, suddenly unreliable and inconstant, gone forever or drifting away.
  Our passions, they concede, make us false, foolish, inconstant, and uncertain.
  Would that you again resemble the inconstant people who knew only effervescence, which we falsely called enthusiasm!
  Synonyms
  fickle, faithless, unfaithful, false, false-hearted, wayward, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthy, changeable, capricious, volatile, mercurial, flighty, chameleon-like, unpredictable, erratic, unstable
  informal blowing hot and cold, cheating, two-timing

Derivatives

inconstancy

nounPlural inconstancies ɪnˈkɒnst(ə)nsi

A good way to break down hierarchies - but how free can they stand, given the inconstancy of progressive funding and radical intervention?
Example sentencesExamples
- Unpredictability and inconstancy in parenting is one very important factor affecting a child negatively.
- They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic and incapacity to reason.
- To have backtracked on a finding to which he was signed up would have been crass and would have exposed him to accusations of inconstancy.
- ‘I know the inconstancy of the people of England,’ she observed privately in 1561, ‘how they ever mislike the present government and have their eyes fixed upon that person who is next to succeed.’

inconstantly

adverb ɪnˈkɒnst(ə)ntli

Fronds simple, or pinnate with the lower pinnae not decresent (small basal pinnae are inconstantly present in Amphineuron)
Example sentencesExamples
- Pseudohole disappears inconstantly after surgery, but its persistence does not preclude good postoperative visual recovery.
- Keeps the head inconstantly and doesn't stay in the sit position.
- Only one who is inconstantly honest in his speech and inconstantly correct in his conduct, who is partial to whatever involves profit to himself to the exclusion of all else, is properly considered a ‘petty man.’
- The analysis of radial force density has to consider the 3-D shape of teeth and overhand, because the radial force density causes vibration and acts on the surface of teeth inconstantly.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin inconstant-, from in- 'not' + constant- 'standing firm' (see constant).

Definition of inconstant in US English:

inconstant

adjectiveinˈkänstəntɪnˈkɑnstənt

1Frequently changing; variable or irregular.
频繁变化的；易变的；无规律的
their exact dimensions aren't easily measured since they are inconstant
它们的确切尺寸不易测量，因为它们变化频繁。
Example sentencesExamples
- I think the life of an actor has a divinity to it; its rhythms are so inconsistent and inconstant.
- This Stoic tradition was quite clear that respect for human dignity could move us to appropriate action, both personal and social, without our having to rely at all on the messier and more inconstant motive of compassion.
- Cuts in foreign affairs and defense spending, inattention to the tools of statecraft, and inconstant leadership are making it increasingly difficult to sustain American influence around the world.
- The world is cruel and rancid, the body is a receptacle of foul gasses and inconstant emotions, and the soul is a paltry fiction.
- It knows that attention on the part of the western powers is inconstant.
- And yet it seems to me that much of what we encounter in our religious life may be called ‘crypto-religious’: elusive, inconstant, hard to define, and yet genuine even so.
- When I ask people why they live in a place so unforgiving, I get straight, immediate answers: wide-open spaces, inconstant weather, even isolation, traits that would discourage many.
- Alas, the social scene is as fluid and inconstant as everything else in this turbulent country.
- At a more specific level, and going back several centuries, histories of national economics show inconstant associations of free trade with economic growth.
- As more information becomes available, the description, definition, and diagnostic criteria may undergo revision, although we do not usually redefine the disease to include inconstant features.
- It all underscores the fact that the administration of the resource management legislation in New Zealand is incredibly uneven and inconstant around the country.
- She had dirty blonde hair which had that straight, heavy look that often comes with inconstant grooming.
- Joshua Morgan's life was ruled by inconstant weather.
- Emily, the youngest was brown-haired and had inconstant hazel eyes that commonly bordered on green.
- The star is still inconstant, however; modern measurements show that, even from one day to the next, T Tauri's brightness can change by as much as half its typical output.
- ‘Good’ and ‘evil’ are inconstant names applied haphazardly by different men to what attracts or repels them.
- The inconstant Moon is well named because the closeness of the Moon to Earth changes with the Sun's tidal force - its differential gravitation.
- But fire is a strange stuff to make the origin of all things, for it is the most inconstant and changeable.
- But if pushed, I would wearily point out that the inconstant luminosity was a statement about the haphazard nature of life, about how the world could be either light or dark.
- The outline of the bright, inconstant moon attends strictly to the position of the sun.
Synonyms
variable, varying, changeable, changing, irregular, shifting, fluctuating, inconsistent, not constant, unsettled, unfixed, mutable, unstable, unsteady
1. 1.1 (of a person or their behavior) not faithful and dependable.
  （人，行为）不忠实的，不可靠的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Would that you again resemble the inconstant people who knew only effervescence, which we falsely called enthusiasm!
  He was an inconstant man, impulsive and greedy.
  Early in the story, the narrator establishes that Diane is representative of her sex in being deceptive, manipulative, and inconstant.
  Among her pithy observations was the fact that ‘men are vile inconstant toads’; and that ‘civility costs nothing and buys everything’.
  One can be physically promiscuous without being emotionally unfaithful, flighty, or inconstant.
  But with Kerry the charge isn't that he's inconstant.
  They're almost cheerfully callous and casually inconstant.
  In addition, feminist readings have detected in city comedy the salient traits of a dominant early modern discourse that constructs women as naturally incontinent and inconstant.
  You either fear his humour or my negligence, that you call in question the continuance of his love: is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?
  Our passions, they concede, make us false, foolish, inconstant, and uncertain.
  Hamlet scorns his mother and denounces women as frail, inconstant, and deceitful.
  The individual members of this particular community are by no means all wonderfully multifaceted, but they are at least inconstant, generous and judgmental, visionary and blinkered, capable of extreme kindness and gross inhumanity.
  And that tells voters (as it probably should) that you're inconstant and unserious.
  Everyone I should have been able to count on, suddenly unreliable and inconstant, gone forever or drifting away.
  Synonyms
  fickle, faithless, unfaithful, false, false-hearted, wayward, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthy, changeable, capricious, volatile, mercurial, flighty, chameleon-like, unpredictable, erratic, unstable

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin inconstant-, from in- ‘not’ + constant- ‘standing firm’ (see constant).

单词	inconstant
释义	Definition of inconstant in English: inconstant adjective ɪnˈkɒnst(ə)ntɪnˈkɑnstənt 1Frequently changing; variable or irregular. 频繁变化的；易变的；无规律的 the exact dimensions aren't easily measured since they are inconstant 它们的确切尺寸不易测量，因为它们变化频繁。 Example sentencesExamples The star is still inconstant, however; modern measurements show that, even from one day to the next, T Tauri's brightness can change by as much as half its typical output. The inconstant Moon is well named because the closeness of the Moon to Earth changes with the Sun's tidal force - its differential gravitation. Emily, the youngest was brown-haired and had inconstant hazel eyes that commonly bordered on green. I think the life of an actor has a divinity to it; its rhythms are so inconsistent and inconstant. The world is cruel and rancid, the body is a receptacle of foul gasses and inconstant emotions, and the soul is a paltry fiction. But fire is a strange stuff to make the origin of all things, for it is the most inconstant and changeable. She had dirty blonde hair which had that straight, heavy look that often comes with inconstant grooming. As more information becomes available, the description, definition, and diagnostic criteria may undergo revision, although we do not usually redefine the disease to include inconstant features. But if pushed, I would wearily point out that the inconstant luminosity was a statement about the haphazard nature of life, about how the world could be either light or dark. It all underscores the fact that the administration of the resource management legislation in New Zealand is incredibly uneven and inconstant around the country. Joshua Morgan's life was ruled by inconstant weather. Cuts in foreign affairs and defense spending, inattention to the tools of statecraft, and inconstant leadership are making it increasingly difficult to sustain American influence around the world. When I ask people why they live in a place so unforgiving, I get straight, immediate answers: wide-open spaces, inconstant weather, even isolation, traits that would discourage many. The outline of the bright, inconstant moon attends strictly to the position of the sun. ‘Good’ and ‘evil’ are inconstant names applied haphazardly by different men to what attracts or repels them. At a more specific level, and going back several centuries, histories of national economics show inconstant associations of free trade with economic growth. Alas, the social scene is as fluid and inconstant as everything else in this turbulent country. It knows that attention on the part of the western powers is inconstant. And yet it seems to me that much of what we encounter in our religious life may be called ‘crypto-religious’: elusive, inconstant, hard to define, and yet genuine even so. This Stoic tradition was quite clear that respect for human dignity could move us to appropriate action, both personal and social, without our having to rely at all on the messier and more inconstant motive of compassion. Synonyms variable, varying, changeable, changing, irregular, shifting, fluctuating, inconsistent, not constant, unsettled, unfixed, mutable, unstable, unsteady technical labile rare changeful, fluctuant, variational 1.1 (of a person or their behaviour) not faithful and dependable. （人，行为）不忠实的，不可靠的 the most inconstant man in the world Example sentencesExamples One can be physically promiscuous without being emotionally unfaithful, flighty, or inconstant. Among her pithy observations was the fact that ‘men are vile inconstant toads’; and that ‘civility costs nothing and buys everything’. The individual members of this particular community are by no means all wonderfully multifaceted, but they are at least inconstant, generous and judgmental, visionary and blinkered, capable of extreme kindness and gross inhumanity. In addition, feminist readings have detected in city comedy the salient traits of a dominant early modern discourse that constructs women as naturally incontinent and inconstant. And that tells voters (as it probably should) that you're inconstant and unserious. They're almost cheerfully callous and casually inconstant. Early in the story, the narrator establishes that Diane is representative of her sex in being deceptive, manipulative, and inconstant. But with Kerry the charge isn't that he's inconstant. Hamlet scorns his mother and denounces women as frail, inconstant, and deceitful. He was an inconstant man, impulsive and greedy. You either fear his humour or my negligence, that you call in question the continuance of his love: is he inconstant, sir, in his favours? Everyone I should have been able to count on, suddenly unreliable and inconstant, gone forever or drifting away. Our passions, they concede, make us false, foolish, inconstant, and uncertain. Would that you again resemble the inconstant people who knew only effervescence, which we falsely called enthusiasm! Synonyms fickle, faithless, unfaithful, false, false-hearted, wayward, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthy, changeable, capricious, volatile, mercurial, flighty, chameleon-like, unpredictable, erratic, unstable informal blowing hot and cold, cheating, two-timing Derivatives inconstancy nounPlural inconstancies ɪnˈkɒnst(ə)nsi A good way to break down hierarchies - but how free can they stand, given the inconstancy of progressive funding and radical intervention? Example sentencesExamples Unpredictability and inconstancy in parenting is one very important factor affecting a child negatively. They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic and incapacity to reason. To have backtracked on a finding to which he was signed up would have been crass and would have exposed him to accusations of inconstancy. ‘I know the inconstancy of the people of England,’ she observed privately in 1561, ‘how they ever mislike the present government and have their eyes fixed upon that person who is next to succeed.’ inconstantly adverb ɪnˈkɒnst(ə)ntli Fronds simple, or pinnate with the lower pinnae not decresent (small basal pinnae are inconstantly present in Amphineuron) Example sentencesExamples Pseudohole disappears inconstantly after surgery, but its persistence does not preclude good postoperative visual recovery. Keeps the head inconstantly and doesn't stay in the sit position. Only one who is inconstantly honest in his speech and inconstantly correct in his conduct, who is partial to whatever involves profit to himself to the exclusion of all else, is properly considered a ‘petty man.’ The analysis of radial force density has to consider the 3-D shape of teeth and overhand, because the radial force density causes vibration and acts on the surface of teeth inconstantly. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin inconstant-, from in- 'not' + constant- 'standing firm' (see constant). Definition of inconstant in US English: inconstant adjectiveinˈkänstəntɪnˈkɑnstənt 1Frequently changing; variable or irregular. 频繁变化的；易变的；无规律的 their exact dimensions aren't easily measured since they are inconstant 它们的确切尺寸不易测量，因为它们变化频繁。 Example sentencesExamples I think the life of an actor has a divinity to it; its rhythms are so inconsistent and inconstant. This Stoic tradition was quite clear that respect for human dignity could move us to appropriate action, both personal and social, without our having to rely at all on the messier and more inconstant motive of compassion. Cuts in foreign affairs and defense spending, inattention to the tools of statecraft, and inconstant leadership are making it increasingly difficult to sustain American influence around the world. The world is cruel and rancid, the body is a receptacle of foul gasses and inconstant emotions, and the soul is a paltry fiction. It knows that attention on the part of the western powers is inconstant. And yet it seems to me that much of what we encounter in our religious life may be called ‘crypto-religious’: elusive, inconstant, hard to define, and yet genuine even so. When I ask people why they live in a place so unforgiving, I get straight, immediate answers: wide-open spaces, inconstant weather, even isolation, traits that would discourage many. Alas, the social scene is as fluid and inconstant as everything else in this turbulent country. At a more specific level, and going back several centuries, histories of national economics show inconstant associations of free trade with economic growth. As more information becomes available, the description, definition, and diagnostic criteria may undergo revision, although we do not usually redefine the disease to include inconstant features. It all underscores the fact that the administration of the resource management legislation in New Zealand is incredibly uneven and inconstant around the country. She had dirty blonde hair which had that straight, heavy look that often comes with inconstant grooming. Joshua Morgan's life was ruled by inconstant weather. Emily, the youngest was brown-haired and had inconstant hazel eyes that commonly bordered on green. The star is still inconstant, however; modern measurements show that, even from one day to the next, T Tauri's brightness can change by as much as half its typical output. ‘Good’ and ‘evil’ are inconstant names applied haphazardly by different men to what attracts or repels them. The inconstant Moon is well named because the closeness of the Moon to Earth changes with the Sun's tidal force - its differential gravitation. But fire is a strange stuff to make the origin of all things, for it is the most inconstant and changeable. But if pushed, I would wearily point out that the inconstant luminosity was a statement about the haphazard nature of life, about how the world could be either light or dark. The outline of the bright, inconstant moon attends strictly to the position of the sun. Synonyms variable, varying, changeable, changing, irregular, shifting, fluctuating, inconsistent, not constant, unsettled, unfixed, mutable, unstable, unsteady 1.1 (of a person or their behavior) not faithful and dependable. （人，行为）不忠实的，不可靠的 Example sentencesExamples Would that you again resemble the inconstant people who knew only effervescence, which we falsely called enthusiasm! He was an inconstant man, impulsive and greedy. Early in the story, the narrator establishes that Diane is representative of her sex in being deceptive, manipulative, and inconstant. Among her pithy observations was the fact that ‘men are vile inconstant toads’; and that ‘civility costs nothing and buys everything’. One can be physically promiscuous without being emotionally unfaithful, flighty, or inconstant. But with Kerry the charge isn't that he's inconstant. They're almost cheerfully callous and casually inconstant. In addition, feminist readings have detected in city comedy the salient traits of a dominant early modern discourse that constructs women as naturally incontinent and inconstant. You either fear his humour or my negligence, that you call in question the continuance of his love: is he inconstant, sir, in his favours? Our passions, they concede, make us false, foolish, inconstant, and uncertain. Hamlet scorns his mother and denounces women as frail, inconstant, and deceitful. The individual members of this particular community are by no means all wonderfully multifaceted, but they are at least inconstant, generous and judgmental, visionary and blinkered, capable of extreme kindness and gross inhumanity. And that tells voters (as it probably should) that you're inconstant and unserious. Everyone I should have been able to count on, suddenly unreliable and inconstant, gone forever or drifting away. Synonyms fickle, faithless, unfaithful, false, false-hearted, wayward, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthy, changeable, capricious, volatile, mercurial, flighty, chameleon-like, unpredictable, erratic, unstable Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin inconstant-, from in- ‘not’ + constant- ‘standing firm’ (see constant).
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