chameleonic

Examples

• All

• It's got this almost like this chameleonic skin that is very adaptive or reactive.

• But this week, the chameleonic conservative action group—which is now calling itself American Tradition Partnership—is falling under a lot more scrutiny.

  Blog text (29)

• The chameleonic function is out of control.

  Fiction book (1991)

• He wants to know how chameleonic genetics work and how they evolved.

  Fiction book (1999)

• They believe that the violence is wired into chameleonic genes - just like it's wired into human genes.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Chameleonic nature was forged in those ponds and pools and hundreds more that lie beneath the triple-canopy forests.

  Fiction book (1999)

• For the novelist, creativity's mobility—its chameleonic talent for dramatizing

  Fiction book (2000)

• I'm watching a documentary about James Hogue... a highly intelligent, talented, troubled, and chameleonic "con-man" who found his way in and out of your former alma mater.

  Blog text (34)

• Sartre's chameleonic view of the self opposes the Proustian solution, which finds a consistent personality uncontaminated by what is external, with an inner life controlling and swallowing up objects.

  Academic text (2009)

• Her chameleonic personality allows her to fit in with any social group effortlessly.

Synonyms

F

flexible

vschameleonic

155 3.4

Able to change or be changed to fit different situations

focuses more on changing identity or behaviour rather than mere flexibility

A

adaptive

vschameleonic

33 4.9

Able to change to fit new conditions

carries extra sense of shifting character or opportunistic change

A

adaptable

vschameleonic

23 3.4

Able to change to fit new situations

adds a sense of shifting identity that can seem untrustworthy

M

malleable

vschameleonic

12 6.0

Easily influenced by others and likely to change opinions

implies active, deliberate shifting that may feel opportunistic

P

pliant

vschameleonic

1 6.5

Willing to change ideas or plans to fit a situation

involves personal change but often with a deliberate self-directed shift

C

changeful

vschameleonic

• Archaic

1 7.5

Tends to be different often

means easy adapting but also carries a possible sense of opportunism

V

versatile

vschameleonic

1 6.5

Likely to change often

leans more toward adaptive disguise and possible untrustworthy switching

P

polymorphous

vschameleonic

1 9.2

Having many different forms or shapes

focuses on personal behaviour change rather than multiple static forms

C

chameleonlike

vschameleonic

7.5

Changing appearance or behaviour to fit different situations, often not honest

is about easy adaptation that can also imply opportunism

A

adaptative

vschameleonic

7.5

Able to change to fit new conditions

stresses quick personal change that sometimes suggests unprincipled switching

S

shapeshifting

vschameleonic

• Literature

7.7

Able to change shape or appearance, often in stories into animals

describes behavioural adaptation and possible insincerity, not literal transformation

A

a bit switchy

vschameleonic

• UK

9.2

Often changes mood or behavior quickly and without warning

is about flexible, adaptive change rather than mere erratic unpredictability

Antonyms

U

unadaptable

1 7.4

Not able or willing to change when conditions are different

F

fixed

1.8

Stays the same and cannot be changed

How Changeable

fickle

39 6.2

protean

• Formal

3 9.2

chameleonic

1 8.3

changeable

8 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology