1 (literary) often changing or reacting in a way that is unexpected:
Emily's mercurial temperament made her difficult to live with. * Advertising is a mercurial business.
2 (literary) lively and quick:
a brilliant, mercurial mind
3 (technical) containing MERCURY:
mercurial compounds
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In this entry, mercurial is tagged as adjective.
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