English to English
adjective
- lacking stability or fixity or firmness
Unstable political conditions.
The tower proved to be unstable in the high wind.
An unstable world economy.
source: WordNet 3.0
- Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- highly or violently reactive
Sensitive and highly unstable compounds.
source: WordNet 3.0
- affording no ease or reassurance
A precarious truce.
source: WordNet 3.0
- suffering from severe mental illness
Of unsound mind.
source: WordNet 3.0
- disposed to psychological variability
His rather unstable religious convictions.
source: WordNet 3.0
- subject to change; variable
A fluid situation fraught with uncertainty.
Everything was unstable following the coup.
source: WordNet 3.0
