what does unstable mean?
UNSTABLE as ADJECTIVE
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- subject to change
- variable
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- a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty
- everything was unstable following the coup
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- affording no ease or reassurance
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- highly or violently reactive
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- sensitive and highly unstable compounds
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- disposed to psychological variability
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- his rather unstable religious convictions
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- suffering from severe mental illness
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- 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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