Definition of protean in English:

protean

adjectiveˈprəʊtɪənprəʊˈtiːən

1Tending or able to change frequently or easily.
变化多端的，易变的
it is difficult to comprehend the whole of this protean subject
全面理解这个变化多端的题目很困难。
Example sentencesExamples
- Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the protean life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations.
- However, I am pursuing a different sense of the protean term Machiavellian in what follows.
- It is a protean creature, an uncertain character capable of fluctuating under pressure.
- They begin by turning the motion on its head, asserting that a reactive foreign policy dangerously ignores the reality of a post cold war world in which the lines of conflict have become protean and subject to unpredictable change.
- Just as the actor animated different trappings in different situations in the same play, and in different plays at different times, the soul animated the protean body through all its changes.
- His respect for ‘evidence’ is both an acknowledgment of its multifaceted and protean nature and an expression of gratitude for the materials it supplies.
- This is not an easy task, not least because the distance on their subjects that historians value is not realizable when examining a subject as protean as globalization, and one that is both now expressing itself and still changing.
- But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things.
- We are all in search of ways of approaching this protean subject; neither metaphor alone nor purely mechanistic interpretations take us very far.
- This internally inconsistent narrative derives its protean fluidity from the projection and reception of the multiplicity of the gendered and racialized discourses of her and our own time.
- Nature is more protean than Bacon dreamed: Proteus merely assumes different shapes; nature shifts between whole realities.
- He never lets his learning cloud his enthusiasm for this wide and protean subject and his writing shares the awe of the poets who preceded him on this journey.
- Sexuality appears to be a protean, shifting concept because it is instantiated at multiple levels.
- George Orwell once described England as a protean creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same.
- The boundaries of its, and its historians ’, concerns have been flexible, even protean.
- The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality.
- Such values are flexible, protean in nature, varying even from film to film.
- Such contradictions generally enhance the text, for they present an attractive protean self, one willing to learn and change when confronted with new knowledge.
- The differential diagnosis of the mild seroconversion illness is protean and, without a high index of suspicion and a history indicating relevant risk behaviours or factors, the diagnosis may be missed.
- Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a protean character who seems to alter with each costume change.
Synonyms
ever-changing, variable, changeable, mutable, kaleidoscopic, erratic, quicksilver, inconstant, inconsistent, unstable, unsteady, shifting, uneven, unsettled, fluctuating, chameleon-like, chameleonic
fluid, wavering, vacillating, mercurial, volatile, unpredictable, wayward, unreliable, undependable
technical labile
rare stayless, changeful
1. 1.1 Able to do many different things; versatile.
  多才多艺的
  protean thinkers who scan the horizons of work and society
  能广察工作和社会视域的多才多艺的思想家。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His protean ability to assume different roles in his poems is often described as theatrical.
  These served to introduce a group of works from the 1940s, mainly not exhibited at the Addison, but characteristic of the protean, notoriously late blooming painter's many guises.
  Born in 1948, he remains for many the heir to Gabin and Belmondo, a versatile, protean actor whose rugged looks are belied by his sensitivity and talent.
  Rembrandt was a protean artist, creating a Shakespearean range of subject and mood in his paintings, drawings and etchings.
  Augustine is a protean thinker, a man whose major works range so widely as to defy the summary and commentary we can present for Athanasius.
  Synonyms
  versatile, adaptable, flexible, all-round, multifaceted, multitalented, many-sided, resourceful, malleable

Origin

Late 16th century: from Proteus + -an.

Definition of protean in US English:

protean

adjective

1Tending or able to change frequently or easily.
变化多端的，易变的
it is difficult to comprehend the whole of this protean subject
全面理解这个变化多端的题目很困难。
Example sentencesExamples
- They begin by turning the motion on its head, asserting that a reactive foreign policy dangerously ignores the reality of a post cold war world in which the lines of conflict have become protean and subject to unpredictable change.
- This internally inconsistent narrative derives its protean fluidity from the projection and reception of the multiplicity of the gendered and racialized discourses of her and our own time.
- Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the protean life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations.
- Sexuality appears to be a protean, shifting concept because it is instantiated at multiple levels.
- George Orwell once described England as a protean creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same.
- However, I am pursuing a different sense of the protean term Machiavellian in what follows.
- Such contradictions generally enhance the text, for they present an attractive protean self, one willing to learn and change when confronted with new knowledge.
- Just as the actor animated different trappings in different situations in the same play, and in different plays at different times, the soul animated the protean body through all its changes.
- His respect for ‘evidence’ is both an acknowledgment of its multifaceted and protean nature and an expression of gratitude for the materials it supplies.
- The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality.
- But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things.
- Nature is more protean than Bacon dreamed: Proteus merely assumes different shapes; nature shifts between whole realities.
- The boundaries of its, and its historians ’, concerns have been flexible, even protean.
- The differential diagnosis of the mild seroconversion illness is protean and, without a high index of suspicion and a history indicating relevant risk behaviours or factors, the diagnosis may be missed.
- This is not an easy task, not least because the distance on their subjects that historians value is not realizable when examining a subject as protean as globalization, and one that is both now expressing itself and still changing.
- He never lets his learning cloud his enthusiasm for this wide and protean subject and his writing shares the awe of the poets who preceded him on this journey.
- Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a protean character who seems to alter with each costume change.
- It is a protean creature, an uncertain character capable of fluctuating under pressure.
- We are all in search of ways of approaching this protean subject; neither metaphor alone nor purely mechanistic interpretations take us very far.
- Such values are flexible, protean in nature, varying even from film to film.
Synonyms
ever-changing, variable, changeable, mutable, kaleidoscopic, erratic, quicksilver, inconstant, inconsistent, unstable, unsteady, shifting, uneven, unsettled, fluctuating, chameleon-like, chameleonic
1. 1.1 Able to do many different things; versatile.
  多才多艺的
  Shostakovich was a remarkably protean composer, one at home in a wide range of styles
  Example sentencesExamples
  Born in 1948, he remains for many the heir to Gabin and Belmondo, a versatile, protean actor whose rugged looks are belied by his sensitivity and talent.
  His protean ability to assume different roles in his poems is often described as theatrical.
  These served to introduce a group of works from the 1940s, mainly not exhibited at the Addison, but characteristic of the protean, notoriously late blooming painter's many guises.
  Augustine is a protean thinker, a man whose major works range so widely as to defy the summary and commentary we can present for Athanasius.
  Rembrandt was a protean artist, creating a Shakespearean range of subject and mood in his paintings, drawings and etchings.
  Synonyms
  versatile, adaptable, flexible, all-round, multifaceted, multitalented, many-sided, resourceful, malleable

Origin

Late 16th century: from Proteus + -an.

词汇	protean
释义	Definition of protean in English: protean adjectiveˈprəʊtɪənprəʊˈtiːən 1Tending or able to change frequently or easily. 变化多端的，易变的 it is difficult to comprehend the whole of this protean subject 全面理解这个变化多端的题目很困难。 Example sentencesExamples Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the protean life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations. However, I am pursuing a different sense of the protean term Machiavellian in what follows. It is a protean creature, an uncertain character capable of fluctuating under pressure. They begin by turning the motion on its head, asserting that a reactive foreign policy dangerously ignores the reality of a post cold war world in which the lines of conflict have become protean and subject to unpredictable change. Just as the actor animated different trappings in different situations in the same play, and in different plays at different times, the soul animated the protean body through all its changes. His respect for ‘evidence’ is both an acknowledgment of its multifaceted and protean nature and an expression of gratitude for the materials it supplies. This is not an easy task, not least because the distance on their subjects that historians value is not realizable when examining a subject as protean as globalization, and one that is both now expressing itself and still changing. But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things. We are all in search of ways of approaching this protean subject; neither metaphor alone nor purely mechanistic interpretations take us very far. This internally inconsistent narrative derives its protean fluidity from the projection and reception of the multiplicity of the gendered and racialized discourses of her and our own time. Nature is more protean than Bacon dreamed: Proteus merely assumes different shapes; nature shifts between whole realities. He never lets his learning cloud his enthusiasm for this wide and protean subject and his writing shares the awe of the poets who preceded him on this journey. Sexuality appears to be a protean, shifting concept because it is instantiated at multiple levels. George Orwell once described England as a protean creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same. The boundaries of its, and its historians ’, concerns have been flexible, even protean. The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality. Such values are flexible, protean in nature, varying even from film to film. Such contradictions generally enhance the text, for they present an attractive protean self, one willing to learn and change when confronted with new knowledge. The differential diagnosis of the mild seroconversion illness is protean and, without a high index of suspicion and a history indicating relevant risk behaviours or factors, the diagnosis may be missed. Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a protean character who seems to alter with each costume change. Synonyms ever-changing, variable, changeable, mutable, kaleidoscopic, erratic, quicksilver, inconstant, inconsistent, unstable, unsteady, shifting, uneven, unsettled, fluctuating, chameleon-like, chameleonic fluid, wavering, vacillating, mercurial, volatile, unpredictable, wayward, unreliable, undependable technical labile rare stayless, changeful 1.1 Able to do many different things; versatile. 多才多艺的 protean thinkers who scan the horizons of work and society 能广察工作和社会视域的多才多艺的思想家。 Example sentencesExamples His protean ability to assume different roles in his poems is often described as theatrical. These served to introduce a group of works from the 1940s, mainly not exhibited at the Addison, but characteristic of the protean, notoriously late blooming painter's many guises. Born in 1948, he remains for many the heir to Gabin and Belmondo, a versatile, protean actor whose rugged looks are belied by his sensitivity and talent. Rembrandt was a protean artist, creating a Shakespearean range of subject and mood in his paintings, drawings and etchings. Augustine is a protean thinker, a man whose major works range so widely as to defy the summary and commentary we can present for Athanasius. Synonyms versatile, adaptable, flexible, all-round, multifaceted, multitalented, many-sided, resourceful, malleable Origin Late 16th century: from Proteus + -an. Definition of protean in US English: protean adjective 1Tending or able to change frequently or easily. 变化多端的，易变的 it is difficult to comprehend the whole of this protean subject 全面理解这个变化多端的题目很困难。 Example sentencesExamples They begin by turning the motion on its head, asserting that a reactive foreign policy dangerously ignores the reality of a post cold war world in which the lines of conflict have become protean and subject to unpredictable change. This internally inconsistent narrative derives its protean fluidity from the projection and reception of the multiplicity of the gendered and racialized discourses of her and our own time. Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the protean life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations. Sexuality appears to be a protean, shifting concept because it is instantiated at multiple levels. George Orwell once described England as a protean creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same. However, I am pursuing a different sense of the protean term Machiavellian in what follows. Such contradictions generally enhance the text, for they present an attractive protean self, one willing to learn and change when confronted with new knowledge. Just as the actor animated different trappings in different situations in the same play, and in different plays at different times, the soul animated the protean body through all its changes. His respect for ‘evidence’ is both an acknowledgment of its multifaceted and protean nature and an expression of gratitude for the materials it supplies. The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality. But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things. Nature is more protean than Bacon dreamed: Proteus merely assumes different shapes; nature shifts between whole realities. The boundaries of its, and its historians ’, concerns have been flexible, even protean. The differential diagnosis of the mild seroconversion illness is protean and, without a high index of suspicion and a history indicating relevant risk behaviours or factors, the diagnosis may be missed. This is not an easy task, not least because the distance on their subjects that historians value is not realizable when examining a subject as protean as globalization, and one that is both now expressing itself and still changing. He never lets his learning cloud his enthusiasm for this wide and protean subject and his writing shares the awe of the poets who preceded him on this journey. Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a protean character who seems to alter with each costume change. It is a protean creature, an uncertain character capable of fluctuating under pressure. We are all in search of ways of approaching this protean subject; neither metaphor alone nor purely mechanistic interpretations take us very far. Such values are flexible, protean in nature, varying even from film to film. Synonyms ever-changing, variable, changeable, mutable, kaleidoscopic, erratic, quicksilver, inconstant, inconsistent, unstable, unsteady, shifting, uneven, unsettled, fluctuating, chameleon-like, chameleonic 1.1 Able to do many different things; versatile. 多才多艺的 Shostakovich was a remarkably protean composer, one at home in a wide range of styles Example sentencesExamples Born in 1948, he remains for many the heir to Gabin and Belmondo, a versatile, protean actor whose rugged looks are belied by his sensitivity and talent. His protean ability to assume different roles in his poems is often described as theatrical. These served to introduce a group of works from the 1940s, mainly not exhibited at the Addison, but characteristic of the protean, notoriously late blooming painter's many guises. Augustine is a protean thinker, a man whose major works range so widely as to defy the summary and commentary we can present for Athanasius. Rembrandt was a protean artist, creating a Shakespearean range of subject and mood in his paintings, drawings and etchings. Synonyms versatile, adaptable, flexible, all-round, multifaceted, multitalented, many-sided, resourceful, malleable Origin Late 16th century: from Proteus + -an.
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