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Definition: INSTABLE |
INSTABLEAdjective1. Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant. |
Date "INSTABLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references) |
Etymology: Instable \In*sta"ble\, adjective. [Latin expression instabilis: compare to the French expression instable. See In- not, and Stable, adjective, and compare to Unstable.]. (references) |
Crosswords: INSTABLE |
| Etymologies containing "INSTABLE": unstable. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "INSTABLE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (disoriented, inconstant, infirm, jumpy, patchy, rocky, shaky, slippery, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
instable | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "INSTABLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | "变 (Variable). (various references) | |
Dutch | onstabiele oscillatie (instable oscillation). (various references) | |
French | oscillation instable (instable oscillation), oscillation amplifiée (instable oscillation). (various references) | |
German | unsicher (chancy, dangerous, doubtful, dubious, halting, haltingly, hazardous, insecure, insecurely, jumpy, precarious, precariously, shaky, uncertain, uncertainly, uneasily, uneasy, uneven, unsafe, unsafely, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unstably, unsteady, unsure, wild). (various references) | |
Greek | ασταθής ταλάντωση (instable oscillation). (various references) | |
Italian | oscillazione instabile (instable oscillation). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ustabil. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | instableay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | oscilação instável (instable oscillation), oscilação amplificada (instable oscillation). (various references) | |
Russian | нестабильный (unstable). (various references) | |
Spanish | inestable (rocky, unsettled, unstable, unsteady), sin estabilidad. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нестабільний, непостійний (ambulatory, capricious, changeable, changeful, fickle, flighty, impermanent, mercurial, non-permanent, shifting, unstable, unsteady, variant, volatile, voluble, weathercock). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không vững (crank, rocky, unstable, unsteady), không kiên định (chameleonic, fickle, mercurial, mutable, seesaw, unstable, unsteadfast), không ổn định (unstable). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"INSTABLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inestable, insatable, instiable, intrabloc, inusable, ionisable, vnseable, Winstable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-l-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: albites, astilbe, banties, basinet, bastile, bestial, blastie, elastin, entails, lesbian, nailset, salient, saltine, slainte, stabile, tenails. | |
-2 letters: ablest, ablins, abseil, absent, albeit, albite, aliens, alines, binate, blains, bleats, blites, elains, elints, enlist, entail, inlets, instal, latens, lianes, listen, sabine, saline, saltie, silane, silent, stable, stelai, tables, tenail, tenias, tineal, tineas, tinsel, tisane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-l-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bailments, bivalents, libelants, stainable, tailbones, tangibles. | |
+2 letters: bairnliest, banalities, blatancies, cobaltines, insatiable, investable, libellants, listenable, obeisantly, unsuitable. | |
+3 letters: abolishment, abstinently, alabastrine, beastliness, bisectional, disablement, habiliments, inabilities, inestimable, inestimably, infibulates, inflatables, injectables, inscrutable, intangibles, liberations, obnubilates, obstinately, subinterval, subterminal, sustainable, tarnishable, timberlands, vinblastine. | |
+4 letters: abolishments, ambitionless, amblygonites, antiliberals, bestializing, billingsgate, blandishment, bloodstained, celebrations, disablements, discountable, distrainable, elaborations, equilibrants, establishing, habitualness, indisputable, inhospitable, jettisonable, labiodentals, langbeinites, libertarians, libertinages, notabilities, pitiableness, prelibations, questionable, questionably, rattlebrains, restrainable, sanctionable, sedimentable, stablishment, subintervals, suitableness, talebearings, tangibleness, tenabilities, transfusible, tunabilities, undisputable, unlistenable, unmistakable, vinblastines. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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