unstable
Adjective
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also:
- inconstant - likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable
- impermanent, temporary - not permanent; not lasting
- unsteady - subject to change or variation
similar to:- coseismal, coseismic - being where earthquake waves arrive simultaneously
- crank, cranky, tender, tippy - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- explosive, volatile - liable to lead to sudden change or violence
- rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky - inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
- rocky - liable to rock
- seismal, seismic - subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
- tipsy - unstable and prone to tip as if intoxicated
- top-heavy - unstable by being overloaded at the top
- tottering - (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse
- volcanic - explosively unstable
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similar to: reactive - participating readily in reactions
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similar to: uneasy - lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurancesame as: precarious
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similar to: insane - afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangementsame as: mentally ill, unsound
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similar to: irresolute - uncertain how to act or proceed
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similar to: changeable, changeful - such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to changesame as: fluid
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