Unstable (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind".
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Meaning 2
Affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce".
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Meaning 3
Subject to change; variable; "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup".
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Meaning 4
Highly or violently reactive; "sensitive and highly unstable compounds".
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Meaning 5
Disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions".
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Meaning 6
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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- The therapist diagnosed the patient with an unstable mental state after a series of violent outbursts.
- The new government faced unstable economic conditions after the war, leading to widespread poverty and discontent.
- Scientists were attempting to develop an unstable compound with potentially explosive properties.
- After several cracks were discovered, the old building was deemed structurally unstable and ordered to be demolished.
- Traveling through unstable countries presents unique challenges and risks for tourists and journalists alike.