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adj. lacking stability or fixity or firmness; "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"

unstable

adj. highly or violently reactive; "sensitive and highly unstable compounds"

fluid, unstable

adj. subject to change; variable; "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup"

fickle, volatile

adj. marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"

variable

adj. (used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied; "a variable capacitor"; "variable filters in front of the mercury xenon lights"

changeable, changeful

adj. such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices"

erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)

adj. liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"

convulsive, spasmodic, spastic

adj. affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements"

unreliable, undependable

adj. not to be trusted

unreliable, undependable

adj. not worthy of reliance or trust; "in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"; "an undependable assistant"

untrustworthy, untrusty

adj. not worthy of trust or belief; "an untrustworthy person"

versatile

adj. changeable or inconstant; "versatile moods"

variable, unsettled

adj. "unsettled weather"

mutable, changeable

adj. capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy"

capricious, freakish

adj. changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"

precarious, shaky

adj. not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage"

activated, excited

adj. (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive

adjustable

adj. capable of being regulated; "adjustable interest rates"

astatic

adj. not static or stable

erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)

adj. liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"

kaleidoscopic, kaleidoscopical

adj. continually shifting or rapidly changing

labile

adj. liable to change; "an emotionally labile person"

open-ended

adj. allowing for future changes or revisions; "open-ended agreements"

quick-change(a)

adj. adept at changing from one thing to another especially changing costumes; "a quick-change artist"

reversible

adj. capable of assuming or producing either of two states; "a reversible chemical reaction"; "a reversible cell"

variable, unsettled

adj. "unsettled weather"

volatile

adj. tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions"

stable

adj. resistant to change of position or condition; "a stable ladder"; "a stable peace"; "a stable relationship"; "stable prices"

constant

adj. steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection; "a man constant in adherence to his ideals"; "a constant lover"; "constant as the northern star"

steady

adj. not subject to change or variation especially in behavior; "a steady beat"; "a steady job"; "a steady breeze"; "a steady increase"; "a good steady ballplayer"

steady

adj. securely in position; not shaky; "held the ladder steady"

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