About The Word Unstable
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Unstable
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What's The Definition Of Unstable?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Unstable: 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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Unstable: See Also | impermanent | inconstant | temporary | unsteady Unstable In Webster's Dictionary \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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