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Meaning of unstable in English
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Classifying Adjective
unstable
Definitions
1.
highly or violently reactive
Examples
« sensitive and highly unstable compounds »
Synonyms
reactive
2.
affording no ease or reassurance
Examples
« a precarious truce »
Synonyms
uneasy
3.
suffering from severe mental illness
Examples
« of unsound mind »
Synonyms
insane
4.
disposed to psychological variability
Examples
« his rather unstable religious convictions »
Synonyms
irresolute
5.
subject to change
Examples
« variable »
« a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty »
« everything was unstable following the coup »
Synonyms
changeable
changeful
Qualitative Adjective
unstable
Definitions
1.
lacking stability or fixity or firmness
Examples
« unstable political conditions »
« the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind »
« an unstable world economy »
Synonyms
coseismic
coseismal
crank
cranky
tender
tippy
disturbed
unsettled
explosive
volatile
labile
rickety
shaky
wobbly
wonky
rocky
seismic
seismal
thermolabile
top-heavy
tottering
volcanic
Antonyms
stable
See also
impermanent
inconstant
unsteady