Protean
Protean adjective - Able to do many different kinds of things.
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Synonyms for Protean
Nearby Word: proteus
Unable
Unable adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.
Usage example: a celebrated author of serious plays, he turned out to be a particularly unable writer of comedies
Both words in one sentence
- Then, they discover that the advanced alien race that lived there constructed a machine that made them immortal and protean, able to take on any shape they willed and unable to die.
Source: Immortal Life Is Cheap
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