What is the meaning of fickle?

adjective

  • Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments.
    • usage: "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"
  • Liable to sudden unpredictable change.
    • usage: "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
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