labile
Adjective Satellite
- (chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown
- liable to change
- "an emotionally labile person"
Adj
- Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
- Apt or likely to change.
- Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
- Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.
Adjective
- Easily altered, unstable, or prone to change.
Examples
- Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.
- His strategy was LABILE, constantly adapting to his opponent’s powerful Scrabble plays.
- Water ligands typically bind metals in a labile fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lābilis (“apt to slip, transient”), from lābor, lābī (“slip; glide, flow”).
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
labile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlabile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
labile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
labile: valid Words With Friends Word