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say it: FIK-uhl
fickle is an adjective meaning "marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments". It is pronounced /ˈfɪkəl/ — FIK-uhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments
“fickle friends”
“a flirt's volatile affections”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fickle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.