shifting

adjective

1. continuously varying

- taffeta with shifting colors

Similar word(s): variable

2. changing position or direction

- he drifted into the shifting crowd

- their nervous shifting glances

- shifty winds

Similar word(s): unsteady, shifty

3. (of soil) unstable

- shifting sands

Similar word(s): loose, unfirm

noun

1. the act of moving from one place to another

- his constant shifting disrupted the class

Similar word(s): shift

Definition categories: act, motion, move, movement

verb

1. present participle of shift