Meaning of UNSTABLE
| Pronunciation: | | un'steybul
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- [adj] subject to change; variable; "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup"
- [adj] affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"
- [adj] highly or violently reactive; "sensitive and highly unstable compounds"
- [adj] disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions"
- [adj] suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"
- [adj] lacking stability or fixity or firmness; "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"
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| | Synonyms: | | changeable, changeful, coseismal, coseismic, crank, cranky, disturbed, explosive, fluid, insane, irresolute, labile, mentally ill, precarious, reactive, rickety, rocky, seismal, seismic, shaky, tender, thermolabile, tippy, top-heavy, tottering, uneasy, unsettled, unsound, volatile, volcanic, wobbly, wonky |
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| | Antonyms: | | stable | | |
| | See Also: | | impermanent, inconstant, temporary, unsteady | |
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| | Definition: | | \Un*sta"ble\, a. [Cf. {Instable}.]
Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change
or overthrow. -- {Un*sta"ble*ness}, n. Chaucer.
{Unstable equilibrium}. See {Stable equilibrium}, under
{Stable}.
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