grown, antediluvian; obsolete, gone by, out-of-date, old-fashioned, oldfangled; behind the times, old-school, passd, moth-eaten, threadbare.
3. apathetic, indifferent, unresponsive, impassive, emotionless; dull, vapid, insipid, banal; listless, spiritless, sluggish.
mutability, n. 1. mutableness, changeability, changeableness, variability, variableness; alterability, alterableness, modifiability, modifiableness, permuta-bility, permutableness, transmutability, transmutable-ness; commutability, commutableness, transposabil-ity, exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness, convertibility, convertibleness, invertibility, reversibility, reversibleness.
2. inconstancy, unstableness, instability, unsettledness, unsteadiness; unevenness, irregularity, errati-cism, unreliability, unreliableness, undependability, undependableness; vacillation, fluctuation, oscillation, alternation, viscissitudes, ups and downs; uncertainness, uncertainty, unsureness, indecision, irresoluteness, irresolution; fickleness, capriciousness, flightiness, mercurialness, mercuriality, lightsomeness.
mutable, adj. 1. changeable, variable, alterable, modifiable, permutable, transformable, transformative, transmutable, transmutative, transmutational; commutable, substitutive, substitutable, substitutional, substitutionary, transposable, exchangeable, interchangeable, convertible, invertible, reversible.
2. changing, ever-changing, inconstant, instable, unstable, unsettled, unsteady; uneven, irregular, erratic, unreliable, undependable; vacillating, vacil-latory, vacillant, oscillating, oscillatory, vicissitudi-nary, vicissitudinous, fluctuating, fluctuant, varying, alternating, blowing hot and cold; wavering, uncertain, unsure, indecisive, irresolute; fickle, capricious, flighty, mercurial, lightsome.
mutation, n. change, variation, alteration, modification, permutation, modulation, inflection; conversion, translation, transformation, metamorphosis, evolution, transfiguration, transmutation, transub-stantiation, transmogrification; transposition, metathesis, commutation, interchange, exchange, inversion; reversal, about-face, turnaround, turnabout, 360° turn; transition, revolution, innovation, new thing or idea; shift, transfer, transference, move, divergence, deviation, digression.
mute, adj. 1. silent, speechless, wordless, mum; tight-lipped, taciturn, reserved, uncommunicative, reticent, close-mouthed; still, noiseless, quiet, Archaic. hush.
2. dumb, speechless, voiceless, Pathol, aphonic;
deaf-and-dumb.
3. (all of letters) silent, unpronounced, unarticulated, unsounded. -n. 4. Pathol, aphonic; deaf-mute, Inf. dummy, -v. 5. (all of sound) deaden, dull, dampen, muf fle; damp, stifle, smother, suffocate, suppress; still, hush, silence, quiet, or quiet down, tone down.
muted, adj. deadened, dull, dulled, dampened, muffled; damped, stifled, smothered, suffocated, sup pressed; hushed, quieted, quiet, soft, softened, toned down; silenced, silent, still, stilled.
mutilate, v. 1. dismember, disjoint, dislimb, tear limb from limb; detruncate, amputate, remove a limb; hack off, chop off, lop off, cut off, tear or rip or pull off, (of a tail) dock, bob, trim; dissect, anatomize, vivisect, skeletonize, disembowel.
2. mangle, butcher, slaughter, hack up, chop up or to pieces, lacerate, cut up, knife, stab, dilacerate, tear or rip to pieces; cripple, maim, lame, disable, hamstring, hock, Scot. hough, Law. commit mayhem; inflict bodily damage or injury, damage, injure, harm, hurt; disfigure, deface, deform, disfeature, mar, spoil, blemish, flaw, scar, blotch, mark up; ruin, destroy, vandalize, tear up, SI. trash.