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Synonyms for unstable
ʌnˈsteɪ bəlun·sta·ble
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Wiktionary
unstableadjective
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instableAntonyms:
stableunstableadjective
having a strong tendency to change
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stableunstableadjective
fluctuating; not constant
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fickle
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unpredictable
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stableunstableadjective
Readily decompasable
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stableunstableadjective
Radioactive, especially with a short half-life
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
unstable
Uncertain is applied to things that human knowledge can not certainly determine or that human power can not certainly control; precarious originally meant dependent on the will of another, and now, by extension of meaning, dependent on chance or hazard, with manifest unfavorable possibility verging toward probability; as, one holds office by a precarious tenure, or land by a precarious title; the strong man's hold on life is uncertain, the invalid's is precarious.
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doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hazardous, insecure, perilous, precarious, risky, unassured, uncertain, unsettled, unsteadyAntonyms:
actual, assured, certain, firm, immutable, incontestable, infallible, real, settled, stable, steady, strong, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unquestionable
Princeton's WordNet
unstableadjective
lacking stability or fixity or firmness
"unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"
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unsound, fluid, precarious, mentally illAntonyms:
sane, firm, easy, lasting, stabilised, stabilized, resolute, unreactive, stable, unfluctuating, stabile, steady, unchangeableunstableadjective
highly or violently reactive
"sensitive and highly unstable compounds"
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unsound, fluid, precarious, mentally illAntonyms:
stabilized, lasting, firm, stabile, unchangeable, easy, stable, steady, stabilised, resolute, unreactive, sane, unfluctuatingprecarious, unstableadjective
affording no ease or reassurance
"a precarious truce"
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mentally ill, perilous, parlous, precarious, shaky, touch-and-go, unsound, fluidAntonyms:
stabilised, stable, lasting, unchangeable, unfluctuating, stabile, easy, stabilized, unreactive, steady, resolute, sane, firmmentally ill, unsound, unstableadjective
suffering from severe mental illness
"of unsound mind"
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mentally ill, bad, unfit, fallacious, precarious, unsound, fluidAntonyms:
steady, easy, unreactive, lasting, resolute, firm, stabilised, sane, stabile, stable, unfluctuating, unchangeable, stabilizedunstableadjective
disposed to psychological variability
"his rather unstable religious convictions"
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unsound, fluid, precarious, mentally illAntonyms:
resolute, lasting, sane, stabilized, unfluctuating, stabilised, stable, stabile, firm, unchangeable, steady, easy, unreactivefluid, unstableadjective
subject to change; variable
"a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup"
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mentally ill, mobile, liquid, fluent, runny, smooth, precarious, unsound, fluidAntonyms:
firm, lasting, stable, stabile, resolute, steady, unfluctuating, unreactive, unchangeable, sane, easy, stabilised, stabilized
Dictionary of English Synonymes
unstableadjective
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UNSTEADY
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
unstableadjective
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insecure, unsteady, irresolute, inconstant, erratic
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "unstable":
volatile, instability, unsettled, precarious, unsteady, shaky, fragile, destabilizing, uncertain, ever-shifting, labile, insecure, destabilization, stable, fluid
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#534 | mobile | |
#841 | bad | |
#3533 | liquid | |
#3880 | smooth | |
#3947 | stable | |
#5086 | fluid | |
#5700 | hazardous | |
#10488 | unstable | |
#11666 | uncertain | |
#12828 | volatile | |
#14236 | fragile | |
#14670 | instability | |
#15665 | risky | |
#20066 | doubtful | |
#20069 | insecure | |
#20530 | fluent | |
#23071 | dubious | |
#29642 | unfit | |
#30673 | shaky | |
#37328 | precarious | |
#38566 | perilous | |
#40835 | unsettled | |
#45989 | runny | |
#49479 | unsteady | |
#53805 | unsound | |
#63242 | destabilizing | |
#70807 | equivocal | |
#74880 | fallacious | |
#79787 | labile | |
#82812 | destabilization | |
#200179 | instable | |
#243836 | parlous |
How to use unstable in a sentence?
Balancing on any type of terrain that's unstable - especially for bipedal robots - is very difficult, whole-body momentum control allows for the robot to optimize the locations of all of its joints so that it maintains its center of mass on uncertain and unstable surfaces.
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
Early season snowpack can be highly unstable because of the lack of consistent storms, once the storm door is open to more frequent snow events in January and February, snow begins to pile up in layers on top of the unstable, early season snowfall.
Today life is going through unstable paces, animals slaved in cages and food exhibited in show-cases. We eat trash, our language is brash, life is a dash and humanity is about to crash. Black is cash, party is a bash and cleansing is just a splash. Wake up, come back to nature or else a human being will just be reduced to a caricature . Let your life be naturalized, get MickeyMized.
Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.
Translations for unstable
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- inestableCatalan, Valencian
- instabilGerman
- nestabilaEsperanto
- inestableSpanish
- ناپایدارPersian
- epävakaaFinnish
- instableFrench
- inestábel, inestableGalician
- अस्थिरHindi
- labilIndonesian
- ცვალებადი, არამყარიGeorgian
- ಅಸ್ಥಿರKannada
- takahuirangiMāori
- instabielDutch
- instávelPortuguese
- instabil, variabil, inconstantRomanian
- неусто́йчивыйRussian
- нопойдорTajik
- غیر مستحکمUrdu
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