adjective (disapproving)
1 changing often and suddenly:
The weather here is notoriously fickle. * the fickle world of fashion * The latest downturn in sales shows just what a fickle business this is. * the fickle finger of fate
2 (of a person) often changing their mind in an unreasonable way so that you cannot rely on them:
a fickle friend * another example of his fickle behaviour
fickleness noun [U]:
the fickleness of the English climate
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