Crossword-Solution: PROTEAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Protean | a. | Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus. |
| Protean | a. | Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PROTEAN | anagram | ONEPART, OPERANT, PARTONE, PATERNO, PATREON, PRATEON, PRONATE |
We have 30 clues for the answer “PROTEAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Very changeable. | 1 answer |
| Readily assuming different shapes. | 1 answer |
| Readily assuming different forms | 1 answer |
| Part one is changeable | 1 answer |
| Frequently changing | 1 answer |
| Extremely variable | 1 answer |
| Exceedingly variable | 1 answer |
| Ever-changing | 1 answer |
| Changeable; variable | 1 answer |
| Changeable in shape | 1 answer |
| chameleonic | 2 answers |
| Highly variable | 2 answers |
| Able to change shape | 3 answers |
| CHANGEABLE ONE | 10 answers |
| BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE IN ACCORDANCE WITH A VARIABLE | 11 answers |
| A CHANGEABLE OR INCONSTANT PERSON | 11 answers |
| never the same | 18 answers |
| Malleable | 29 answers |
| Versatile | 51 answers |
| Adaptable | 71 answers |
| transient | 72 answers |
| purposeless | 72 answers |
| Random | 73 answers |
| Vagrant | 76 answers |
| paradoxical | 78 answers |
| indiscriminate | 79 answers |
| Precarious | 79 answers |
| changing | 82 answers |
| changeable | 83 answers |
| Trivial | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROTEAN (5)
The student of the poem is amazed, long before he gets over all these monologues, at the Protean capabilities of the poet’s own intellect.
For untold ages, oppressed by protean fear, I am aware of wandering, endlessly wandering, through a dank and soggy wilderness, where poisonous snakes struck at us, and animals roared around us, and the mud quaked under us and sucked at our heels.
Most of us, by the Protean quality of man, can talk to some degree with all; but the true talk, that strikes out all the slumbering best of us, comes only with the peculiar brethren of our spirits, is founded as deep as love in the constitution of our being, and is a thing to relish with all our energy, while yet we have it, and to be grateful for forever.
There is no untruth in this, for man, being a Protean animal, swiftly shares and changes with his company and surroundings; and these changes are the better part of his education in the world.
Imagine Byron or Shelley, who knew the ocean in all its protean moods, piping such thin feebleness as “The blue, the fresh, the ever free!” To do that required a man whose acquaintance with the deep was limited to a view of it from an upper window at Margate or Scarborough.
Quotes with PROTEAN (3)
The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the tru…
I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianity and Islam, theistic though they may claim to be, are both based on the fetishizing of human primates: Jesus in one case and Mohammed in the other. Neither of these figures can be called exactly historical but both have one thing in common even in their quasi-mythical dimension. Both of them were first encountered by the Jews. And the Jews, ravenous as they…
A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric of the actual without ever coming fully 'out' in a person, place, or thing. A life points to ... 'matter in variation that enters assemblages and leaves them. A life is a vitality proper not to any individual but to 'pure immanence,' or that protean swarm that is not actual though it is real: 'A life contains only virtuals. It is made of virtualities.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1957–2024).