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1 fickle as fortune
She's as fickle as fortune; it's one favourite to-day and another to-morrow with her. (DEI) — Она непостоянна как фортуна: сегодня один любимец, завтра другой.
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2 fortune
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3 skittish
1. a норовистый, упрямый2. a живой, резвый; игривый; кокетливый3. a своенравный, капризный, ветреный4. a непрочный, изменчивый, непостоянный; коварный5. a пугливый, робкий6. a крайне осторожный, осмотрительныйСинонимический ряд:1. changeable (adj.) capricious; changeable; ever-changing; fickle; flight; lively; moody; mutable; whimsical2. excitable (adj.) agitable; alarmable; combustible; edgy; excitable; skittery; startlish; volatile3. giddy (adj.) bird-witted; dizzy; empty-headed; featherbrained; flighty; fribble; fribbling; frivolous; giddy; harebrained; hoity-toity; light; lightheaded; light-headed; rattlebrained; scatterbrained; silly; volage; yeasty4. shy (adj.) bashful; demure; mousy; prim; reluctant; shrinking; shy; timid; timorous5. uneasy (adj.) fidgety; high-strung; jittery; jumpy; nervous; restive; restless; tense; twitchy; uneasyАнтонимический ряд:imperturbable; uninhibited
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Fickle — Fic kle, a. [OE. fikel untrustworthy, deceitful, AS. ficol, fr. fic, gefic, fraud, deceit; cf. f[=a]cen deceit, OS. f?kn, OHG. feichan, Icel. feikn portent. Cf. {Fidget}.] Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fortune — For tune (f[^o]r t[ u]n; 135), n. [F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See {Bear} to support, and cf. {Fortuitous}.] 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fortune book — Fortune For tune (f[^o]r t[ u]n; 135), n. [F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See {Bear} to support, and cf. {Fortuitous}.] 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fortune hunter — Fortune For tune (f[^o]r t[ u]n; 135), n. [F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See {Bear} to support, and cf. {Fortuitous}.] 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fortune teller — Fortune For tune (f[^o]r t[ u]n; 135), n. [F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See {Bear} to support, and cf. {Fortuitous}.] 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fortune telling — Fortune For tune (f[^o]r t[ u]n; 135), n. [F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See {Bear} to support, and cf. {Fortuitous}.] 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
fortune — n 1.(all as determined by wealth) position, place, situation; station, status, standing, footing, rank; level, grade, class; conditions, circumstances. 2. capital, assets, worth; income, money, revenue; stock, substance, possessions, means;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
wheel of fortune — Synonyms and related words: April showers, Chance, Dame Fortune, Fortuna, Fortune, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Lady Luck, Luck, Proteus, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, blind Chance, book of fate, chameleon, cloud shapes,… … Moby Thesaurus
House of Fame, The — by Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1379) A DREAM VISION by CHAUCER, The House of Fame is a poem of three books in octosyllabic couplets. Most scholars believe that it was written after The BOOK OF THE DUCHESS but before The PARLIAMENT OF FOWLS. The… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
Skittish — Skit tish, a. [See {Skit}, v. t.] 1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. A restiff, skittish jade. L Estrange. [1913 Webster] 2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. Skittish Fortune s hall.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Skittishly — Skittish Skit tish, a. [See {Skit}, v. t.] 1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. A restiff, skittish jade. L Estrange. [1913 Webster] 2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. Skittish Fortune… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
