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Protean - What does it mean?

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protean

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms.
    • An amoeba is a protean animalcule.
    His plots and protean characters plunge readers into the world of fable, yet their universal appeal, as this biography shows, is deeply rooted in the particularity of Garcia Marquez’s own idiosyncratic early life...
  • * :
    • He loved to show off his protean talent.
  • Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.

    • See also

    * Protea * shapeshifting

    Anagrams

    * * * English eponyms English words suffixed with -an

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.