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unstable

adjective

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Senses

Sense 1 adjective

lacking stability or fixity or firmness

unstable political conditions

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Sense 2 adjective

highly or violently reactive

sensitive and highly unstable compounds

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Sense 3 adjective

affording no ease or reassurance

a precarious truce

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Sense 4 adjective

suffering from severe mental illness

of unsound mind

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Sense 5 adjective

disposed to psychological variability

his rather unstable religious convictions

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Sense 6 adjective

subject to change; variable

a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty

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SenseRelationGroupWord
1 also see Related & opposite inconstant
1 also see Related & opposite temporary
1 also see Related & opposite unsteady
1 antonym Related & opposite stable
1 derivation Related & opposite unstableness
1 similar to Related & opposite coseismic
1 similar to Related & opposite crank
1 similar to Related & opposite explosive
1 similar to Related & opposite rickety
1 similar to Related & opposite rocky
1 similar to Related & opposite seismic
1 similar to Related & opposite tipsy
1 similar to Related & opposite top-heavy
1 similar to Related & opposite tottering
1 similar to Related & opposite volcanic
2 derivation Related & opposite unstableness
2 similar to Related & opposite reactive
3 derivation Related & opposite uncertainty
3 derivation Related & opposite unstableness
3 similar to Related & opposite uneasy
4 derivation Related & opposite unstableness
4 derivation Related & opposite unsoundness
4 similar to Related & opposite insane
5 derivation Related & opposite unstableness
5 similar to Related & opposite irresolute
6 derivation Related & opposite fluidity
6 similar to Related & opposite changeful