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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective unstable has 6 senses

• unstable(a = adj.all) Array - lacking stability or fixity or firmness; "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"
Antonym: stable
Derived form noun unstableness₁

• unstable(s = adj.all) Array - highly or violently reactive; "sensitive and highly unstable compounds"
Derived form noun unstableness₁

• unstable(s = adj.all) precarious - affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"
Derived form noun unstableness₁

• unstable(s = adj.all) mentally ill, unsound - suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"
Derived form noun unstableness₁

• unstable(s = adj.all) Array - disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions"
Derived form noun unstableness₁

• unstable(s = adj.all) fluid - subject to change; variable; "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup"

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THESAURUS

unstable

adrift, afloat, alternating, ambiguous, amorphous, borderline, brittle, buoyant, canted, capricious, changeable, changeful, changing, choppy, corruptible, crumbling, dangerous, deciduous, decrepit, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dickey, different, disintegrating, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, doubtful, dubious, dying, eccentric, effervescent, elastic, ephemeral, erose, erratic, evanescent, fading, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, fleeting, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluid, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, freakish, fugacious, fugitive, giddy, hazardous, heeling, ill-balanced, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indefinite, infirm, insecure, insubstantial, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, leaning, listing, lopsided, lubricious, mazy, mercurial, mobile, momentary, moody, mortal, motley, moving, mutable, nonconformist, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonuniform, off-balance, overbalanced, passing, perilous, perishable, pluralistic, poor, poorish, precarious, protean, provisional, ragged, rambling, resilient, restless, risky, rocky, rootless, rotten, rotten at, rough, roving, scatterbrained, shaky, shapeless, short-lived, shuffling, slippery, spasmodic, spineless, sporadic, suspect, temperamental, temporal, temporary, tentative, tergiversating, ticklish, top-heavy, tottery, transient, transitive, transitory, treacherous, tricky, unaccountable, unbalanced, uncertain, uncontrolled, undecided, undependable, undisciplined, undurable, unenduring, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfaithworthy, unfirm, unfixed, unhealthy, unorthodox, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsafe, unsettled, unsolid, unsound, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsturdy, unsubstantial, unsure, unsystematic, untrustworthy, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbly

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Danger

N danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard, venture, precariousness, slipperiness, instability, defenselessness, exposure, vulnerability, vulnerable point, heel of Achilles, forlorn hope, leap in the dark, road to ruin, faciles descensus Averni, hairbreadth escape, cause for alarm, source of danger, rock ahead, breakers ahead, storm brewing, clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering, warning, alarm, apprehension, in danger, endangered, fraught with danger, dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous, unsafe, unprotected &c (safe, protect), insecure, untrustworthy, built upon, sand, on a sandy basis, wildcat, defenseless, fenceless, guardless, harborless, unshielded, vulnerable, expugnable, exposed, open to, aux abois, at bay, on the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore, on the rocks, at stake, in question, precarious, critical, ticklish, slippery, slippy, hanging by a thread, with a halter round one's neck, between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires, on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano, in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire, not out of the wood, unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, unprepared, off one's guard, tottering, unstable, unsteady, shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged, helpless, guideless, in a bad way, reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity, trembling in the balance, nodding to its fall, threatening, ominous, illomened, alarming, explosive, adventurous, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, nam tua res agitur paries dum proximus ardet.

Transientness

N transience, transientness, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly, spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement, interregnum, velocity, suddenness, changeableness, transient, transient boarder, transient guest, transient, transitory, transitive, passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, flying, fugacious, fugitive, shifting, slippery, spasmodic, instantaneous, momentaneous, temporal, temporary, provisional, provisory, deciduous, perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden, momentary, temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time, awhile, en passant, in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip, one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu! fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!, dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion.

Changeableness

N changeableness, mutability, inconstancy, versatility, mobility, instability, unstable equilibrium, vacillation, fluctuation, vicissitude, alternation, restlessness, fidgets, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, unrest, agitation, moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers, wheel of Fortune, transientness, changeable, changeful, changing, mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing, protean, proteiform, versatile, unstaid, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled, fluctuating, restless, agitated, erratic, fickle, irresolute, capricious, touch and go, inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic, vibratory, vagrant, wayward, desultory, afloat, alternating, alterable, plastic, mobile, transient, wavering, seesaw, off and on, a rolling stone gathers no moss, pictra mossa non fa muschis, honores mutant mores, varium et mutabile semper femina.

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