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
Related & opposite
- unstableness derivation
- reactive similar to
Sense 3 adjective
affording no ease or reassurance
a precarious truce
Related & opposite
- uncertainty derivation
- unstableness derivation
- uneasy similar to
Sense 4 adjective
suffering from severe mental illness
of unsound mind
Related & opposite
- unstableness derivation
- unsoundness derivation
- insane similar to
Sense 5 adjective
disposed to psychological variability
his rather unstable religious convictions
Related & opposite
- unstableness derivation
- irresolute similar to
Sense 6 adjective
subject to change; variable
a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |