What is the meaning of unstable?

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"
  • Suffering from severe mental illness.
    • usage: "of unsound mind"
  • 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"
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APAWordNet. (2010). unstable. Retrieved September 22, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/unstable/definitions/1187371
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