variable

1. 1.

   liable to or capable of change

   “rainfall in the tropics is notoriously variable”

   “variable winds”

   “variable expenses”

   Antonymsinvariable

   Similarchangeablecovariantmultivariateproteanshiftingvariantversatile
2. 2.

   marked by diversity or difference

   “the varying angles of roof slope”

   “nature is infinitely variable”

   Synonymsvarying

   Similarvaried
3. 3.

   (used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied

   “a variable capacitor”

   “variable filters in front of the mercury xenon lights”

   Similaradaptable

Other forms of variable

plural

variables·

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.

Questions about variable

What does variable mean?

variable means "something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in variable?

variable has 4 syllables: var-i-a-ble. The stress falls on "var". In IPA it is /ˈvɛɹiəbəl/.

What is another word for variable?

Close synonyms include variable quantity, variable star, varying. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of variable?

The recorded antonyms are invariable.

Is variable a common word?

variable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with variable?

1 word rhymes with variable. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.