Protean \Pro"te*an\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus. "
      Protean transformations." --Cudworth.
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   2. Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or
      forms; as, an am[oe]ba is a protean animalcule.
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	protean
     adj : taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling protean
           gray which is never twice the same"

	

	48 Moby Thesaurus words for "protean":
   able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, allotropic, alterable,
   alterative, changeable, changeful, checkered, diversiform,
   ever-changing, flexible, fluid, heteromorphic, heteromorphous,
   impermanent, kaleidoscopic, labile, malleable, manifold,
   many-sided, metamorphic, metamorphotic, mobile, modifiable,
   movable, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiphase, multiple,
   multiplex, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plastic, polymorphic,
   polymorphous, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, supple, transient,
   transitory, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable