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unstable
adjective
Lacking stability or fixity or firmness
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ʌnˈsteɪbəɫ
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adjective
Lacking stability or fixity or firmness
“Unstable political conditions”
adjective
Highly or violently reactive
“Sensitive and highly unstable compounds”
adjective
Affording no ease or reassurance
“A precarious truce”
adjective
Suffering from severe mental illness
“Of unsound mind”
adjective
Disposed to psychological variability
“His rather unstable religious convictions”
adjective
Subject to change; variable
“A fluid situation fraught with uncertainty”
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Unstable political conditions
The tower proved to be unstable in the high wind
An unstable world economy
Sensitive and highly unstable compounds
A precarious truce
Of unsound mind
His rather unstable religious convictions
A fluid situation fraught with uncertainty
Everything was unstable following the coup
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