Protean

Etymology

From Proteus, the prophetic sea god of Greek myth — Homer’s "Old Man of the Sea" — who would escape anyone trying to pin him down by shifting shape into a lion, a serpent, water, or fire. Only by holding on through every transformation could you force him to answer. The adjective distills that talent for shape-shifting into a single word for versatility.

adjective · /PROH-tee-un/
Endlessly changeable and versatile, able to take on many different forms or roles.
What it names
The gift of fluid adaptability — reach for it to praise a talent, a material, or a personality that reshapes itself to whatever the moment demands.
Example
A protean performer, she moved from stand-up to Shakespeare to voice acting without ever seeming out of place.
Related idea
Versatile simply means capable of many things; protean adds the sense of actively transforming, of having no fixed shape to begin with.