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shifting
adjective as in active
Strong matches
adjective as in changeable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- agitated
- commutative
- convertible
- fitful
- flighty
- fluid
- impulsive
- inconstant
- indecisive
- irregular
- irresolute
- irresponsible
- kaleidoscopic
- mobile
- movable
- permutable
- restless
- reversible
- revocable
- skittish
- spasmodic
- transformable
- transitional
- uncertain
- unreliable
- unsteady
- vacillating
- vagrant
- variable
- variant
- versatile
- wavering
- whimsical
adjective as in errant
adjective as in erratic
Strongest matches
adjective as in fitful
adjective as in fluid
adjective as in incongruent
Weak matches
- alien
- bizarre
- conflicting
- contradictory
- disconsonant
- discordant
- discrepant
- disparate
- dissonant
- distorted
- divergent
- extraneous
- fantastic
- fitful
- foreign
- illogical
- improper
- inappropriate
- inapropos
- inapt
- incoherent
- incompatible
- inconsistent
- irreconcilable
- irregular
- jumbled
- lopsided
- mismatched
- out of keeping
- rambling
- twisted
- unavailing
- unbalanced
- unbecoming
- unconnected
- uncoordinated
- uneven
- unintelligible
- unpredictable
- unrelated
- unsuitable
- unsuited
adjective as in incongruous
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- alien
- conflicting
- disconsonant
- discordant
- disparate
- distorted
- divergent
- extraneous
- fantastic
- fitful
- foreign
- illogical
- improper
- inapropos
- inapt
- incongruent
- inconsistent
- irreconcilable
- irregular
- jumbled
- lopsided
- mismatched
- out of keeping
- rambling
- twisted
- unavailing
- unbalanced
- unbecoming
- unconnected
- uncoordinated
- uneven
- unintelligible
- unpredictable
- unrelated
- unsuitable
- unsuited
adjective as in inconstant
adjective as in intermittent
Strongest matches
adjective as in irregular
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- aimless
- casual
- changeable
- designless
- desultory
- disconnected
- discontinuous
- fitful
- fluctuating
- fragmentary
- haphazard
- hit-or-miss
- inconstant
- indiscriminate
- infrequent
- nonuniform
- occasional
- out of order
- patchy
- purposeless
- recurrent
- shaky
- spasmodic
- uncertain
- unconsidered
- unmethodical
- unpunctual
- unsettled
- unsteady
- unsystematic
- up and down
adjective as in itinerant
Strongest matches
adjective as in migrant/migratory
adjective as in migrational
adjective as in momentary
adjective as in moving
adjective as in on-again, off-again
Weak matches
- alternate
- arrested
- broken
- by bits and pieces
- checked
- cyclic
- cyclical
- discontinuing
- discontinuous
- epochal
- every other
- fitful
- here and there
- hit-or-miss
- infrequent
- interrupted
- isochronal
- isochronous
- iterant
- iterative
- metrical
- now and then
- occasional
- on and off
- periodic
- periodical
- punctuated
- recurrent
- recurring
- rhythmic
- rhythmical
- seasonal
- serial
- spasmodic
- sporadic
- stop-and-go
adjective as in pro tem
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- Band-Aid
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- interim
- limited
- make-do
- makeshift
- momentary
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- short
- short-lived
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in ranging
Strong matches
adjective as in short-range
Strongest match
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- Band-Aid
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- interim
- limited
- make-do
- makeshift
- momentary
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- short
- short-lived
- short-term
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in short-term
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- Band-Aid
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- make-do
- makeshift
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- short
- short-lived
- short-range
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in standardizing
Weak matches
adjective as in temporary
Strong matches
adjective as in transmigratory
adjective as in unsettled
Strongest matches
adjective as in unsteady
adjective as in vacillating
Strong matches
Weak match
adjective as in vacillating
adjective as in vagabond
Strong matches
adjective as in variable
adjective as in varying
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in movement
Strong matches
noun as in reformation
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
The Babadook is the shape of grief: all-enveloping, shape-shifting, black, here intensely, terrifying, then gone.
In the past, Santos has been stubbornly opposed to a bilateral ceasefire, but his position on the issue may be shifting.
The lack of legal clarity is only one piece of an already frenzied and shifting operating environment.
The political impact of shifting demographics is a hot topic.
The sudden shifting of light and shadow in Palmer's life was never more apparent than on the morning of the last game of 1982.
Thus all about us is the moving and shifting spectacle of riches and poverty, side by side, inextricable.
Only at moments was he aware of this—a kind of higher Self, detached from shifting moods, looked on calmly and took note.
When the sailors are employed in shifting the sails, great care must be taken to avoid injury by the falling of any of the ropes.
Then dawn flung itself impetuously across the hills, and the naked rim of the canyon took form in a shifting whirl of smoke.
I eventually came to one of the largest, where by considerable shifting they managed to accommodate my car.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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