unstable

[un·sta·ble]

To be unstable is to lack stability, meaning things could change without warning, like an unstable bookshelf that is likely to fall down. If you are unstable emotionally, you might be ecstatically happy one minute and horribly depressed and angry the next.

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Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.

Adjective S.
subject to change; variable; "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup"

Adjective S.
affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"

Adjective S.
highly or violently reactive; "sensitive and highly unstable compounds"

Adjective S.
disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions"

Adjective S.
suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"

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Adjective
lacking stability or fixity or firmness; "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"


a.
Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.


Unstable

Un*sta"ble , a. [Cf. Instable.] Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow. -- Un*sta"ble*ness, n. Chaucer. Unstable equilibrium. See Stable equilibrium, under Stable.

Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.

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Usage Examples

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.

I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

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