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"unstable" - meanings, definitions, synonyms, thesaurus and antonyms

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  1. [adj] - subject to change; variable; "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup"
  2. [adj] - affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"
  3. [adj] - highly or violently reactive; "sensitive and highly unstable compounds"
  4. [adj] - disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions"
  5. [adj] - suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"
  6. [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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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

  1. \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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