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# fickle

«fickle» in Mova's school dictionary: **changing often in what one likes or loves, so one cannot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (fickle, fickler, ficklest)

### meaning for a pupil

Fickle means changing often in what one likes or loves, so one cannot be trusted to stay the same. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fickle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a prince is fickle when he loves one person one day and another the next

### examples

- The fickle prince soon forgot the girl he had promised to marry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fickle/#x1)
- The weather in April is fickle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fickle/#x2)
- Do not trust a fickle friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fickle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fickle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fickle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.