unstable
pronunciation
How to pronounce unstable in British English:
UK [ʌnˈsteɪbl]
How to pronounce unstable in American English:
US [ʌnˈsteɪbl]
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- Adjective:
- lacking stability or fixity or firmness
- highly or violently reactive
- affording no ease or reassurance
- suffering from severe mental illness
- disposed to psychological variability
- subject to change; variable
Word Origin
- unstable (adj.)
- early 13c., "apt to move," from un- (1) "not" + stable (adj.). Similar formation in Middle High German unstabel. Meaning "liable to fall" is recorded from c. 1300; sense of "fickle" is attested from late 13c. An Old English word for this was feallendlic, which might have become *fally.
Antonym
Example
- 1. That causes services like gmail to appear unstable .
- 2. So pakistan 's painful and unstable status quo persists .
- 3. Bismarck left his successors an unstable structure .
- 4. Not , at least , while the world 's economy remains so unstable and terrifying for ordinary mortals .
- 5. Entrepreneurship is the safety net we hold onto in a very unstable and unforgiving workplace .