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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. taking on different forms;
- Example: "eyes...of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Protean \Pro"te*an\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus. " Protean transformations." --Cudworth. [1913 Webster] 2. Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an am[oe]ba is a protean animalcule. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

protean adj 1: taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

48 Moby Thesaurus words for "protean": able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, allotropic, alterable, alterative, changeable, changeful, checkered, diversiform, ever-changing, flexible, fluid, heteromorphic, heteromorphous, impermanent, kaleidoscopic, labile, malleable, manifold, many-sided, metamorphic, metamorphotic, mobile, modifiable, movable, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiphase, multiple, multiplex, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plastic, polymorphic, polymorphous, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, supple, transient, transitory, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable