“Labile” (LAY-bile) – from the Latin for “to slip” – means apt or likely to change; adaptable.
Example (as used by Lev Grossman in Time magazine): “[Michel] Faber’s prose is an amazingly labile instrument, wry and funny, never pretentious, capable of rendering the muck of a London street and the delicate hummingbird flights of thought with equal ease.”
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