adjective
- Lacking stability or fixity or firmness.
- usage: "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"
- Highly or violently reactive.
- usage: "sensitive and highly unstable compounds"
- Affording no ease or reassurance.
- usage: "a precarious truce"
- synonyms: precarious
- Suffering from severe mental illness.
- usage: "of unsound mind"
- synonyms: mentally ill, unsound
- Disposed to psychological variability.
- usage: "his rather unstable religious convictions"
- Subject to change; variable.
- usage: "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup"
- synonyms: fluid
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