Chargeable vs Changeable - What's the difference?
chargeable | changeable |
That may be charged to an account.
(rare) Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).
* 1865 , Joel Prentiss Bishop, Commentaries on the Criminal Law (volume 2, page 380)
Capable of being changed.
Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
As adjectives the difference between chargeable and changeable
is that chargeable is that may be charged to an account while changeable is capable of being changed.chargeable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Thus, if one confines another, even a prisoner, who has not had the small-pox, with an infected person, whereby the one confined takes the distemper and dies, he is chargeable with murder.
Quotations
* 1859 John Thomas Arlidge - On the state of lunacy and the legal provision for the insane *: The law provides for the occasional visitation of pauper lunatics in asylums chargeable to parishes, by a certain number of the officers . . . * 1853 The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Common *: These cruelties are not, indeed, chargeable on Mr. Hastings personally; but when I state, that he levied an unjust war, the consequences that follow he is guilty of.changeable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The weather is very changeable today; it can be bright sunshine, cloudy, windy and rainy in the same half-hour.