Synonyms for Unstable

Synonyms for "unstable" (245 found)

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Closest matches (49)

Related words (122)

off-balance overbalanced passing perilous perishable pluralistic poor poorish protean provisional ragged rambling ramshackle reactive resilient restless rickety risky rootless rotten

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rotten at rough roving scatterbrained seismal sensitive shaking shaky shapeless shifting shifty short lived short-lived shuffling slight slippery spasmodic spineless sporadic suspect temperamental temporal temporary tender tentative tergiversating ticklish tipsy top heavy top-heavy tottering tottery transient transitive transitory treacherous trick tricky unaccountable unbalanced uncertain uncontrolled undecided undependable undisciplined undurable unenduring unequable unequal uneven unfaithworthy unfirm unfixed unhealthy unorthodox unpredictable unreliable unrestrained unsafe unsettled unsolid unsound unstable as water unstaid unsteadfast unsteady unsturdy unsubstantial unsure unsystematic untrustworthy ununiform vacillate vacillating vagrant variable variant variegated variform various varying vicissitudinary vicissitudinous volatile volcanic wandering wanton wavering wavery wavy wayward weak whimsical wishy washy wishy-washy wobbly

Adjective(2 words)

precarious unsound

Adjective(4 words)

rickety tottering unsteady wobbly

Related word relations

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8 relation types

Antonyms

2 entries

stable

Synonyms

4 entries

instable labile mentally ill precarious

Related terms

2 entries

instability unstability

derived

2 entries

emotionally unstable personality disorder unstable equilibrium

derived from

1 entries

stable

has context

2 entries

chemistry physics

related to

15 entries

change constant decompose fickle fluctuating half life impermanent inconstant instability radioactive strong tendency unpredictable unstability unsteady

similar

42 entries

changeable changeful coseismal coseismic crank cranky explosive impermanent inconstant insane irresolute

Showing 16 of 42 words.

Translations

47 translations across 31 languages.

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Ancient Greek

2 entries

ἀστάθμητος adj (not stable)
ἀσταθής adj (not stable)

Asturian

1 entries

inestable adj (not stable)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

sabitsiz adj (not stable)

Bulgarian

1 entries

нестабилен adj (not stable)

Catalan

1 entries

inestable adj (not stable)

Dutch

1 entries

instabiel adj (not stable)

Esperanto

1 entries

nestabila adj (not stable)

Finnish

1 entries

epävakaa adj (not stable)

French

2 entries

instable adj (not stable)
instable adj (readily decomposed or decomposable)

Galician

2 entries

inestable adj (not stable)
inestábel adj (not stable)

Georgian

3 entries

არამყარი adj (not stable)
არასტაბილური adj (not stable)
ცვალებადი adj (not stable)

German

2 entries

instabil adj (not stable)
labil adj (not stable)

Greek

1 entries

ασταθής adj (not stable)

Hindi

1 entries

अस्थिर adj (not stable)

Hungarian

2 entries

ingatag adj (not stable)
instabil adj (not stable)

Indonesian

1 entries

labil adj (not stable)

Italian

2 entries

instabile adj (not stable)
instabile adj (readily decomposed or decomposable)

Japanese

1 entries

不安定 adj (not stable)

Kazakh

1 entries

аумалы adj (not stable)

Ladino

1 entries

instavle adj (not stable)

Latin

1 entries

instābilis adj (not stable)

Māori

3 entries

koritaka adj (not stable)
takahuirangi adj (not stable)
whakaroiroi adj (not stable)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

xwenegir adj (readily decomposed or decomposable)

Persian

1 entries

ناپایدار adj (not stable)

Polish

2 entries

niestabilny adj (not stable)
niestały adj (not stable)

Portuguese

2 entries

instável adj (not stable)
instável adj (readily decomposed or decomposable)

Romanian

3 entries

inconstant adj (not stable)
instabil adj (not stable)
variabil adj (not stable)

Russian

1 entries

неусто́йчивый adj (not stable)

Spanish

3 entries

inestable adj (not stable)
inestable adj (readily decomposed or decomposable)
instable adj (readily decomposed or decomposable)

Swedish

1 entries

instabil adj (not stable)

Tajik

1 entries

нопойдор adj (not stable)

Sample sentences

18 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Future prospects for ASEAN seem unstable, no matter how you look at it.

Source: tatoeba (279838)

The political situation was, to say the least, extremely unstable during the next ten years of his reign.

Source: tatoeba (286539)

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

Source: tatoeba (907463)

Antimatter is highly unstable.

Source: tatoeba (952332)

Showing 4 of 18 available sentences.

Unstable