unstable

unstable is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.
2. adjective. subject to change; variable

   "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"

   "everything was unstable following the coup"

   Synonyms: fluid

3. adjective. affording no ease or reassurance

   "a precarious truce"

   Synonyms: precarious

4. adjective. highly or violently reactive

   "sensitive and highly unstable compounds"

5. adjective. disposed to psychological variability

   "his rather unstable religious convictions"

6. adjective. suffering from severe mental illness

   "of unsound mind"

   Synonyms: unsound

7. adjective. lacking stability or fixity or firmness

   "unstable political conditions"

   "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"

Synonyms

fluid, precarious, unsound

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in unstable:

abluents

Common word forms

unstabled, unstabler, unstablest, unstableness

Words from these letters

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