protean 的定义
- readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- changeable in shape or form, as an amoeba.
- versatile; able to play many kinds of roles.
- of, relating to, or suggestive of Proteus.
protean 近义词
versatile
更多protean例句
- There seemed a sense that his blackness alone lent him a protean kind of wisdom, power, promise—hope, we might recall.
- As you stare at the protean work, the massive, fake, ink landscape fools you.
- All language is protean, a moment-in-time snap-shot of evolution in action.
- Yet how, in this age of protean trends and indecipherable jargon, are we to draw the line?
- Lupus is a protean disease that can cause inflammation in just about every part of the body, including the synovium.
- Curiosity, thoughtless mirth, mock humility, and other symptoms of the protean vice are painted by a master.
- Remains precisely the question: man feeling this protean capacity to grow a new organ: what organ?
- Although matter is protean and its transformations limitless, there are certain changes which cannot be made.
- The story of Proteus itself is Protean, and must be grasped in its essence through all its appearances.
- Keats was often impatient of this Protean quality of his own mind.