Fick'le (fĭk'l), a.

a. [A-S. ficol, fickle, crafty, from fican, to touch lightly, to flatter. Cf. N. H. Ger. ficken, to move back and forth with a quick motion, Icel. fika, to hasten.] Not fixed or firm; liable to change or vicissitude; inconstant; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose. “Fortune’s furious, fickle wheel.” Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. — Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable; inconstant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful; capricious.