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fickle

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Changing loyalties, preferences, or attitudes unpredictably.

The fickle audience embraced one style in spring and rejected it by autumn.

Dictionary practice example.

A fickle stall buyer requested bright badges one morning, rejected the same colors that evening, and offered no reason for her unpredictable changes of preference.

From Fashion at the Night Market.

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