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mercurial 音标拼音: [mɚkj'ʊriəl] a. Mercury神的,水星的,敏捷的,活泼的,水银的
n. 水银剂,汞剂 Mercury神的,水星的,敏捷的,活泼的,水银的水银剂,汞剂 mercurial adj 1: liable to sudden unpredictable change; " erratic behavior"; " fickle weather"; " mercurial twists of temperament"; " a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [ synonym: { erratic}, { fickle}, { mercurial}, { quicksilver( a)}] 2: relating to or under the ( astrological) influence of the planet Mercury; " the Mercurial canals" 3: relating to or having characteristics ( eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury; " more than Mercurial thievishness" 4: relating to or containing or caused by mercury; " mercurial preparations"; " mercurial sore mouth" Mercurial \ Mer* cu" ri* al\, n. 1. A person having mercurial qualities. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Med.) A preparation containing mercury. [ 1913 Webster]
Mercurial \ Mer* cu" ri* al\, a. [ L. mercurialis, fr. Mercurius Mercury: cf. F. mercuriel.] 1. Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. [ 1913 Webster] A mercurial man Who fluttered over all things like a fan. -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts. [ Obs.] -- Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money- making; crafty. [ 1913 Webster] The mercurial wand of commerce. -- J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. See { Mercury}, 2. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Med.) Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth. [ 1913 Webster] 236 Moby Thesaurus words for " mercurial": active, activist, activistic, adrift, adroit, afloat, agile, alive, alternating, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, animated, at loose ends, aureate, bouncing, bouncy, brass, brassy, brazen, breakneck, breezy, brisk, bronze, bronzy, bubbly, buoyant, capricious, changeable, changeful, changing, chipper, choppy, clever, copper, coppery, coquettish, cunning, cupreous, cuprous, dashing, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, double- minded, double- quick, dubious, eagle- winged, ebullient, eccentric, effervescent, elastic, energetic, erose, erratic, expansive, expeditious, express, faddish, fast, fast and loose, fence- sitting, fence- straddling, ferrous, ferruginous, fickle, fitful, fleet, flickering, flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuating, flying, freakish, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, galloping, giddy, gilt, gold, gold- filled, gold- plated, golden, hair- trigger, hasty, headlong, hustling, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, ingenious, iron, ironlike, irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, lead, leaden, light, light of heel, light- footed, live, lively, lubricious, mazy, mercurous, militant, mobile, moody, motley, movable, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mutable, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, nimble, nimble- footed, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, of two minds, peppy, perky, pert, pewter, pewtery, pluralistic, precipitate, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, quicksilver, ragged, rambling, rapid, reckless, resilient, restless, rough, roving, running, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, silver, silver- plated, silvery, skittish, smacking, snappy, spanking, spasmodic, speedy, spineless, spirited, sporadic, sprightly, spry, steel, steely, swift, temperamental, ticklish, tin, tinny, toying, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undecided, undependable, undetermined, undisciplined, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed, unorthodox, unpredictable, unreliable, unresolved, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, versatile, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, vivacious, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, winged, wishy- washy, zingy
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