fluid, unstable
(adjective) subject to change; variable; “a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty”; “everything was unstable following the coup”
precarious, unstable
(adjective) affording no ease or reassurance; “a precarious truce”
unstable
(adjective) highly or violently reactive; “sensitive and highly unstable compounds”
unstable
(adjective) disposed to psychological variability; “his rather unstable religious convictions”
unstable
(adjective) lacking stability or fixity or firmness; “unstable political conditions”; “the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind”; “an unstable world economy”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
unstable (comparative more unstable, superlative most unstable)
Having a strong tendency to change.
Fluctuating; not constant.
Fickle.
Unpredictable.
(chemistry) Readily decomposable.
(physics) Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.
• (having strong tendency to change): labile
• (fluctuating, not constant): instable (rare); see also unsteady
• (fickle): arbitrary, capricious
• (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over): tottering, unsteady, wobbly; see also rickety
• stable
unstable (third-person singular simple present unstables, present participle unstabling, simple past and past participle unstabled)
(transitive) To release (an animal) from a stable.
• abluents, ant-blues, bleaunts, blue ants, tunables, unablest
Source: Wiktionary
Un*sta"ble, a. Etym: [Cf. Instable.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
