Word Meanings - UNSTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow. -- Un*sta"ble*ness, n. Chaucer. Unstable equilibrium. See Stable equilibrium, under Stable.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNSTABLE)

• Fickle
• Fanciful
• fitful
• capricious
• irresolute
• changeable
• vacillating
• mutable
• unreliable
• veering
• shifting
• variable
• restless
• inconstant
• unstable
• Fitful
• Capricious
• fickle
• impulsive
• desultory
• fanciful
• unequal
• irregular
• Slippery
• Smooth
• glassy
• lubricated
• insecure
• perilous
• unsafe
• shifty
• elusive
• shuffling
• unprincipled
• deceptive
• evasive
• untrustworthy
• uncertain

Related words: (words related to UNSTABLE)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• VACILLATING
  Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• MUTABLE
  1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn.
• SHIFT
  divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a 1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. To
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• ELUSIVE
  Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. -- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n.
• IMPULSIVELY
  In an impulsive manner.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• VACILLATION
  1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. His vacillations, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. Jer. Taylor.
• UNEQUALNESS
  The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.
• SHIFTER
  An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. (more info)
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• FICKLE
  Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled;
• CRESTLESS
  Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak.
• UNSHIFTABLE
  1. That may 2. Shiftless; helpless.
• DELUSIVE
  Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream. Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. Whewell. -- De*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- De*lu"sive*ness, n.
• SCENESHIFTER
  One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.