## Examples
- Prices in this market are highly mutable and shift from week to week.
- Lists in Python are mutable, so you can add or remove items at any time.

## Synonyms
- abateable
- alterable
- changeable
- dynamic
- editable
- inconstant
- modifiable
- variable

## Antonyms
- immutable

## Derived Forms
- epimutable
- hypermutable
- hypomutable
- mutability
- mutableness
- mutably
- nonmutable
- paramutable
- unmutable

## Related Forms
- alterable
- nonimmutable

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *mey- (change)
- Root: mutable
- Root: mutabilis

## Etymology
From Middle English mutable, from Old French mutable, from Latin mutabilis (“liable to change”). By surface analysis, muta- + -able.

## AI Etymology
Mutable comes from Middle English mutable, from Old French mutable, from Latin mutabilis (“liable to change”). By surface analysis, muta- + -able. In present-day English its meanings include able to change or be changed and in programming, having a value that can be changed after it is created. The historical chain runs through *mey- (change) (Proto-Indo-European), mutable (Middle English), mutable (Old French), and mutabilis (Latin). Related and derived forms include alterable, nonimmutable, epimutable, and hypermutable.

## Topics
- Cause, Change & Process

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