shapeshifter
A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.
Noun
- A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.
- The shapeshifter Lisa Bowalk, unable to shed the guise of a black panther, had gone onto the plain as a prisoner but was not now to be found among the dead above or the Captured down below. - 2000, Glen Cook, Water...
- Like the teller of shapeshifter stories—who conjures a shifting world of perceptions and expectations for his or her audience that is strikingly similar to the worlds created by the shapeshifter for its victims—the...
- There have also been verified reports of fire-starters and ice-makers and a shapeshifter so powerful she was able to frame another Smallville citizen for a bank robbery! - 2004, Devin Grayson, Smallville: City:
- A person who is inconsistent and elusive.
- She was an alcoholic, very chageable, very deceptive. A shapeshifter. You never knew where you stood with her, […] - 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 268:
Origin
From shape + shifter.