Chameleonize

Quick meaning: Chameleonize is a verb meaning (intransitive) To change colour or turn various colours; to be transformed (to suit changing circumstances).

Meaning

(intransitive) To change colour or turn various colours; to be transformed (to suit changing circumstances).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause to change colour or turn various colours; to transform (to suit changing circumstances).
2. (reflexive) To transform oneself, as if changing colour like a chameleon.

Example Sentences

King by your leaue, for in your kingſhippe I muſt leaue you, and repeate how from white to redde you camelionized.

The new socialists seemed to be just tuning in, uttering empty words, doing as the others did, following them, not sticking out, “chameleonizing” to the environment and to a socialist way of life.

I care nothing for the plaudits of the populace. I’m ambitious, in a way; but when that way requires me to leave the people—the things—that I love, then ambition chameleonizes and I become ambitious antithetically.

One of the things I love about my bar is its ability to chameleonize from a rock-and-roll dive bar to a wine geek tasting post to an annoyingly elitist art world clubhouse to a fashion model/coke whore hang to a gay bar to a bridge-and-tunnel frat party, sometimes incorporating three such incarnations in a night.

Word Forms

• chameleonizes
• chameleonizing
• chameleonized
• chameleonise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chameleonise, transform, translate, transmute, transfigure, metamorphose.

Related Dictionary Tools