UNSTABLE as ADJECTIVE

  1. Meaning
    • subject to change
    • variable
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    • a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty
    • everything was unstable following the coup
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  2. Meaning
    • affording no ease or reassurance
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    • a precarious truce
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  3. Meaning
    • highly or violently reactive
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    • sensitive and highly unstable compounds
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  4. Meaning
    • disposed to psychological variability
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    • his rather unstable religious convictions
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  5. Meaning
    • suffering from severe mental illness
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    • of unsound mind
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  6. Meaning
    • lacking stability or fixity or firmness
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    • unstable political conditions
    • the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind
    • an unstable world economy
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