Associations to the word «Protean»

Wiktionary

PROTEAN, adjective. Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms.
PROTEAN, adjective. Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.
PROTEAN, adjective. Of or relating to Proteus

Dictionary definition

PROTEAN, adjective. Taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne