Dictionary definition · unstable
adjective
- lacking stability or fixity or firmness"unstable political conditions"
- highly or violently reactive"sensitive and highly unstable compounds"
- affording no ease or reassurance"a precarious truce"
- suffering from severe mental illness"of unsound mind"
- disposed to psychological variability"his rather unstable religious convictions"
- subject to change; variable"a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).