UNSTABLE


Meaning of UNSTABLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

highly

So you see, beneath that calm exterior lies a highly unstable child.

Because of its highly unstable nature, various thromboxane A 2 -generating systems have to be used in order to study its vasoactive properties.

mentally

But Gore was a sick man. Mentally unstable , he would kill his parents in an explosive night of violence.

They may be able to help the unbalanced and mentally unstable to become somewhat more balanced and stable, we admit.

The conventional accounts of violence against women suggest that most men who are violent to women are mentally unstable in some way.

The woman, who was described as mentally unstable , refused to talk about her reasons for the shooting.

She hadn't known, until after she was married to Paul, that he had a brother who was mentally unstable .

Simpson said the lawyers accused her of being mentally unstable .

The resulting uncertainty as to whether she was coming or going had made her, to some extent, mentally unstable .

too

Reactions have varied, but it's universally agreed that the preview is way too unstable and slow for everyday use.

He was not yet five, and her life seemed too unstable there.

Fears remain, however, that the area is too unstable for any such measures to be effective.

They were too unstable to be transported.

very

The situation there remains very unstable .

These resonant orbits are very unstable .

It was potentially extremely dangerous and although it had survived since the war it may have been very unstable .

Handy rejects a full-blown version of this vision on the grounds that such a divergent society would be very unstable .

For the moment everything seemed calm, but under the surface the whole situation was very unstable .

Other places, particularly the tropical Far East have been very unstable over the last 15 million years.

■ NOUN

angina

Contraindications to exercise training include unstable angina pectoris, ventricular arrhythmias, and severe aortic stenosis.

Sophia has unstable angina and is refusing surgery from which she might benefit.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an unstable economy

He is emotionally unstable , and his aggressive attitude often culminates in violence.

Regimes governed by violence are always unstable .

That scaffolding looks unstable - get all the building workers off the site immediately.

Was it safe to trust someone who was so emotionally unstable ?

Working with Clare every day, I began to realize how unstable she was.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Handy rejects a full-blown version of this vision on the grounds that such a divergent society would be very unstable .

It was potentially extremely dangerous and although it had survived since the war it may have been very unstable .

Mentally unstable , he would kill his parents in an explosive night of violence.

The isotope U-235 is unstable , decaying by a process called spontaneous fission.

The situation here is precarious, quite unstable .

The situation there remains very unstable .

The woman, who was described as mentally unstable , refused to talk about her reasons for the shooting.

This moves their orbital electrons from the ground state to a higher energy level that is unstable .

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