mercurial
adjectiveChanging mood or behavior quickly and unpredictably.
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Changing mood or behavior quickly and unpredictably.
Worth, quality, or a sound reason that deserves recognition or consideration.
A substantial transformation in form or character.
Substantial transformation
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Very careful and attentive to detail.
Careful about details
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To reduce something as much as possible, or to present it as less important.
Reduce to a minimum
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A mistaken understanding of a situation or statement.
Mistaken understanding
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An incorrect belief or understanding.
Incorrect belief
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To interpret something incorrectly.
Excessively unwilling to spend or share money or resources.
To understand or explain the meaning of something incorrectly.
To read something incorrectly or form a mistaken understanding of a situation.
A false or misleading account of facts, views, or events.
To reduce the severity, seriousness, or harmful effect of something.
Make less severe
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The reduction of the severity, extent, or harmful effect of something.
To make or become less intense, extreme, or severe.
Reduce intensity
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Restraint that avoids excess or extremes.
Relating to money or its use and supply.
Speech or sound that remains at one pitch with little variation.
The confidence, enthusiasm, and sense of purpose of a person or group.
Preoccupied with judging conduct by moral rules, often in a self-righteous or overbearing way.
Overly judgmental about morals
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Having several different aspects or features.
A large number or varied collection of something.
A very large number of things or a large gathering of people.
Capable of changing or prone to change.
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