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Unstable

adjective

Lacking stability or fixity or firmness. "The tower proved to be unstable in the high wind" , "An unstable world economy" Antonym: stable.

Highly or violently reactive.

Affording no ease or reassurance. Synonym: precarious.

Suffering from severe mental illness. Synonyms: mentally ill, unsound.

Disposed to psychological variability.

Subject to change; variable. Synonym: fluid. "Everything was unstable following the coup"

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"Unstable" Quotes from Famous Books

... shot; for nothing could have been less complimentary to the jealous and quick-tempered captain of the house than to be mistaken for his self-conceited and unstable inferior, with whom, he was in the habit of congratulating himself, he had little or ...

— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed

... machinery of all kinds, manned by highly trained men to operate it, and commanded by officers fit to be intrusted with such responsibilities, is a highly developed and sensitive organism—and, like all highly developed and sensitive organisms, exists in a state of what may be called "unstable equilibrium." As pointed out in previous pages, the high skill needed to perform well any very difficult task can be gained only by great practice in overcoming difficulties and eliminating errors of many kinds; and when the difficulties are manifold ...

— The Navy as a Fighting Machine • Bradley A. Fiske

... nothing without paper-credit and other fictions; so let them pass current. Don't steal their chips; don't puncture their swimming-bladders; don't come down on their pasteboard boxes; don't break the ends of their brittle and unstable reputations, you fellows who all feel sure that your names will be household words a thousand years ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... I have offered many an example of what religion can do, and of what the want of it will produce. I have uttered many a warning. One more I must repeat: Remember that this world affords no rest to the soul—this world is unstable and fleeting—those who persist in making the utmost it can offer their aim, are striving to clutch a passing shadow. Oh! never forget it is but a place of preparation—a place of trial—for all human beings alike. To commence mother life all are hastening—all must commence ere long. High and ...

— Old Jack • W.H.G. Kingston

... however unstable or inglorious it might appear to those few who understood the interests, and felt for the honour of their country, was nevertheless not unwelcome to the nation in general. The British ministry will always find it more difficult to satisfy the people at the end of a successful campaign, than at ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

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