Vocabulary
Fickle
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
changing frequently, especially as regards one’s loyalties or affections.
Urdu meaning
بدلتے مزاج والا، ناپائیدار
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The economic crises arise as our predatory rulers induce fickle growth via high twin deficits.
- The longest crisis-free phase after 1990 was 2001-2005 when a military-led set-up induced questionable stability via fickle US aid and repression.
- The last two set-ups had ample reserves to ignite two years of fickle growth via large twin deficits before the polls, but were still unsure of winning the elections.
- As it can`t achieve even fickle growth, the current set-up`s electoral chances look grimmer despite Punjab`s frenzied `hand-outs politics` that reaches only a handful of voters.
- The set-up claims that it has achieved significant external wins, especially with regard to its relations with the US, the old, fickle patron of autocrats.
Synonyms
capricious, changeable, variable, volatile, mercurial, vacillating, fitful, irregular
Antonyms
constant, stable
Curator example
“celebs trying to appeal to an increasingly fickle public”
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