unstable

Adjective

• Not firm or steady; prone to change or collapse.
• lacking stability or fixity or firmness
  • "unstable political conditions"
  • "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"
  • "an unstable world economy"

Adjective Satellite

• highly or violently reactive
  • "sensitive and highly unstable compounds"
• affording no ease or reassurance
• suffering from severe mental illness
• disposed to psychological variability
  • "his rather unstable religious convictions"
• subject to change; variable
  • "everything was unstable following the coup"

Adj

• Not stable.
• Having a strong tendency to change.
• Fluctuating; not constant.
• Fickle.
• Unpredictable.
• Readily decomposable.
• Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.

Verb

Verb Forms: unstabler, unstablest

• To release (an animal) from a stable.

Examples

• His lead in Words With Friends felt unstable, knowing his opponent had a full rack.

Synonyms

fluid, mentally ill, precarious, unsound, arbitrary, capricious, instable, labile, rickety, tottering, unsteady, wobbly

Antonyms

stable

Related Words

instability, unstability

Anagrams of unstable