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Definition: Unstable |
UnstableAdjective1. Lacking stability or fixity or firmness; "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy". 2. Highly or violently reactive; "sensitive and highly unstable compounds". 3. Affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce". 4. Suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind". 5. Disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions". 6. Subject to change; variable; "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unstable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Unstable \Un*sta"ble\, adjective. [Compare to Instable.]. (references) |
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Mining | A. Said of a constituent of a sedimentary rock that does not effectively resist further mineralogic change and that represents a product of rapid erosion and deposition (as in a region of tectonic activity and high relief); e.g., feldspar, pyroxene, hornblende, and various fine-grained rock fragments b. Said of an immature sedimentary rock (such as graywacke) consisting of unstable particles that are angular to subrounded, poorly to moderately sorted, and composed of feldspar grains or rock fragments. CF:labil e.g., feldspar, pyroxene, hornblende, and various fine-grained rock fragments. (references) |
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Radioactive isotopes (often referred to as radioisotopes or radionuclides) play an important part in the technologies that provide us with food, water and good health. Radioisotopes are unstable radioactive isotopes that either occur naturally or are produced by bombarding small amounts of particular elements with neutrons (usually emitted from a nuclear reactor).
In medicine, radioisotopes are widely used for diagnosis and research. Radioactive chemical tracers emit gamma radiation which provides diagnostic bla,bla , bla about a person's anatomy and the functioning of specific organs. Radiotherapy also employs radioisotopes in the treatment of some illnesses, such as cancer. More powerful gamma sources are used to sterilise syringes, bandages and other medical equipment. About one in two people in Western countries is likely to experience the benefits of nuclear medicine in their lifetime, and gamma sterilisation of equipment is almost universal.
In food preservation, radioisotopes are used to inhibit the sprouting of root crops after harvesting, to kill parasites and pests, and to control the ripening of stored fruit and vegetables. Irradiated foodstuffs are accepted by world and national health authorities for human consumption in an increasing number of countries. They include potatoes, onions, dried and fresh fruits, grain and grain products, poultry and some fish. Some prepacked foods can also be irradiated.
In agriculture and animal husbandry, radioisotopes also play an important role. They are used to produce high yielding, disease and weather resistant varieties of crops, to study how fertilisers and insecticides work, and to improve the productivity and health of domestic animals.
Industrially, and in mining, they are used to examine welds, to detect leaks, to study the rate of wear of metals, and for on-stream analysis of a wide range of minerals and fuels.
Most household smoke detectors use radioisotope derived from the plutonium or americium formed in nuclear reactors, saving many lives.
Environmentally, radioisotopes are used to trace and analyse pollutants, to study the movement of surface water, and to measure water runoffs from rain and snow, as well as the flow rates of streams and rivers.
Trace radioisotopes are those that occur in minute amounts in nature either due to inherent rarity or to half-lifes that are significantly shorter than the age of the Earth. Synthetic isotopes are not naturally occurring on Earth, but they can be created via nuclear reactions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Radioactive isotope."
Synonyms: UnstableSynonyms: fluid (adj), mentally ill (adj), precarious (adj), unsound (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: stable (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Changeableness | Unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating; Verb: restless; agitated; erratic, fickle; irresolute; capricious; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient; wavering. |
Noun: changeableness; Adjective: mutability, inconstancy; versatility, mobility; instability, unstable equilibrium; vacillation; (irresolution); fluctuation, vicissitude; alternation; (oscillation). | |
Danger | Tottering; unstable, unsteady; shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged; helpless, guideless; in a bad way; reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity; trembling in the balance; nodding to its fall; (destruction). threatening; ominous, illomened; alarming; (fear); explosive. |
Transientness | Temporal, temporary; provisional, provisory; deciduous; perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure; impermanent. |
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Screenplays | Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole, and it, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable, obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) Nothing could be worse for a girl in your unstable condition, to be mixed up with a man in, in my unstable condition because two people in unstable conditons are like two countries facing each other in unstable conditons (The Night of the Iguana; writing credit: Tennessee Williams; Anthony Veiller) | |
Lyrics | You think you're mad, too unstable (WEST END GIRLS; performing artist: Pet Shop Boys) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Unstable Minds (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Observations of a massive, unstable star called Eta Carinae, made with the Wide Field and ... Credit: NASA. |
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Charles Caleb Colton | Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. |
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Man in sooth is a marvelous vain, fickle, and unstable subject. |
St. Jerome | An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. |
Virgil | A woman is always a fickle, unstable thing. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Free radicals are highly unstable molecules produced by cells during normal metabolism. (references) | |
These lesions are less unstable than AVMs and do not pose the same relatively high risk of significant hemorrhage. (references) | ||
Patients with stress urinary incontinence are quite dissimilar from those with uninhibited contractions and unstable bladders. (references) | ||
Business | Credit lines are hardly affordable due to high interest rates and the domestic banking system is considered to be unstable. (references) | |
Locals have better access to end-users as well as a deeper understanding of the logic of a fluctuating and unstable business environment. (references) | ||
Such patients have significant oral problems and treatment needs, including denture-related conditions of the mouth and unstable or unretentive lower dentures. (references) | ||
Economic History | Greece | After 3 weeks, the communists were defeated, and an unstable coalition government was formed. (references) |
Turkey | From 1975 to 1980, unstable coalition governments ruled, led alternately by Demirel and Ecevit. (references) | |
Guinea | The Guinean franc has been fairly unstable, depreciating 19% of its value against the dollar over the past year. (references) | |
Human Rights | Angola | The unstable security situation in the interior of the country impeded relief workers from carrying out their duties. (references) |
Guatemala | Many of these cases involved accidental discharges of weapons, drunken misbehavior by on- or off-duty officers, questionable crowd control techniques, or poor judgment by officers who lost control of unstable situations involving angry crowds or persons resisting arrest. (references) | |
Political Economy | PAKISTAN | In the past, however, investors have faced unstable policy conditions, particularly on large infrastructure projects. (references) |
Political Rights | Guinea-Bissau | The political situation was unstable at year's end. (references) |
Vanuatu | Parliamentary majorities have been unstable, with frequent votes of confidence. (references) | |
Travel | Albania | The security situation throughout Albania remains unstable. (references) |
Worker Rights | Lithuania | Traffickers particularly target the socially most vulnerable groups: Young females from poor, asocial, or unstable families. (references) |
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Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Nuclear proliferation would raise the specter of the use of nuclear explosives in crucial, unstable regions of the world endangering not only our security and that of our Allies, but that of the whole world. |
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| "Unstable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.29% of the time. "Unstable" is used about 708 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.29% | 703 | 9,512 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 708 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unstable": extremely unstable ♦ moderately unstable ♦ slightly unstable ♦ unstable air ♦ unstable air mass ♦ unstable angina ♦ unstable channel ♦ unstable control ♦ Unstable Diabetes ♦ unstable equilibrium ♦ unstable humus ♦ unstable layer ♦ unstable reach ♦ unstable slope ♦ unstable temperament ♦ unstable weather. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "unstable": unstable-looking. | |
Ending with "unstable": ever-unstable, potentially-unstable. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "unstable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jo i fortë (rotten), i paqëndrueshëm (changeable, cranky, fickle, fluent, fluid, inconsequential, inconstant, infirm, labile, mutable, non-persistent, protean, rocky, soft, tipsy, tottering, unequable, unsteady, variable, volatile, waggly, wayward), i ndryshueshëm (alterable, changeable, changeful, fickle, flexible, inconstant, labile, mercurial, mobile, movable, mutable, protean, shifting, transitional, uncertain, unsettled, unsteady, variable, various, varying, vertiginous), i lëkundshëm (hesitating, jumpy, rocky, shaky, unsteady, vacillating, wavering). (various references) | |
Arabic | متقلب (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, flighty, fluctuant, fluky, freakish, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, jumpy, mercurial, mobile, moody, mutable, reversible, rough and tumble, shaky, skittish, temperamental, unsettled, unsteady, variable, versatile, volatile, wavering, wayward, weather vane, whimsical, yeasty), متحول (changeable, fickle, inconstant, unsteady, variable), متزعزع (insecure, precarious, rickety, shaky, slippery, unsteady, wonky), متداع (rickety, tottering), مزعزع (irresolute), غير مستقر (inconstant, infirm, insecure, labile, migrant, skittish, tottering, uneasy, unsettled, unsteady). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нестабилен (crank, dicky, doddery, groggy, insecure, tottery, uncertain, unsound, unsteady, wonky), неустойчив (infirm, insecure, labile, non-persistent, rickety, top heavy, transient, unballasted, unequable, unsteady, waggly, weak), неуравновесен (flighty, lop-sided, temperamental, unbalanced, unballasted, unpredictable), непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo), променлив (baffling, changeable, choppy, erratic, fitful, fluctuating, fluent, inconsistent, inconstant, liquid, mobile, protean, shifting, undecided, unsettled, unsteady, variable, variant, varied, versatile, volatile). (various references) | |
Chinese | 婀 (graceful, willowy), 不稳定 (Instabilities, instability, Queasily, Queasy), 不安 (disturbed, intranquil, restless, uneasy, unpeaceful, worried). (various references) | |
Czech | vrtkavý (inconstant, volatile), vratký (groggy, halting, insecure, loose, rickety, specious, top heavy, unsteady), nestabilní (unsettled), nestálý (changeable, erratic, fickle, floating, impermanent, inconstant, passing, unceasing, unsettled, unsteady, volatile), labilní (labile), kolísavý (erratic, fluctuating, jumpy, wavering). (various references) | |
Danish | ustabil kontrol (shifting control, unstable control), ustabil kanal (unstable channel), ustabil ligevægt i længderetningen (longitudinally unstable equilibrium point), ustabil ligevaegt (unstable equilibrium), ustabil lysbue (unstable arc), ustabil trafikafvikling (unstable flow), ustabilt brud (unstable fracture), ustabilt lag (unstable layer), ustadig ligevægt (unstable equilibrium), ustabil humus (friable humus, unstable humus), varierende kontrol (shifting control, unstable control), ekstrem ustabil (extremely unstable), naeringshumus (friable humus, unstable humus), moderat ustabil (moderately unstable), let ustabil (slightly unstable), løst terræn (unstable ground), emotionelt ustabil psykopat (emotionally unstable personality). (various references) | |
Dutch | uitzonderlijk stabiel (extremely unstable), onregelmatige verkeersafwikkeling (unstable flow), beweeglijke grond (unstable ground), enigszins instabiel (slightly unstable), gematigd instabiel (moderately unstable), indien de slappe grond onder een ophoging uit een dunne laag van niet meer dan drie meter bestaat ligt de beste oplossing in het volledig uitgraven /afgraven/ van die laag en het vervangen ervan door geschikt aanvullingsmateriaal (if the unstable material underlying an embankment is a shallow deposit up to about 10 ft in depth, then the most satisfactory treatment is to excavate it completely and replace it by selected fill), instabiele geul (unstable channel), instabiele humus (friable humus, unstable humus), labiel evenwicht (unstable equilibrium), labiel evenwichtspunt in de lengterichting (longitudinally unstable equilibrium point), onbestendig evenwicht (unstable equilibrium), zwak instabiel (slightly unstable), onstabiel meetpunt (shifting control, unstable control), onstabiele boog (unstable arc), onstabiele breuk (unstable fracture), onstabiele grond (unstable ground), onstabiele humus (friable humus, unstable humus), onstabiele laag (unstable layer), voedingshumus (friable humus, unstable humus), matig instabiel (moderately unstable). (various references) | |
Farsi | متزلزل (Giddy, Insecure, Ramshackle, Seismic, Shaky), نااستوار (Infirm), لرزان (Unsteady, Vibrant, Wobbly), بی پایه (Loose, Unfounded), بی ثبات (Impermanent, Shifty, Slippery, Variable). (various references) | |
Finnish | horjuva (failing, tottering, uncertain, undecided, unsteady, wavering), epävakainen (changeable, inconstant, unsteady, variable). (various references) | |
French | instable (uncertain, unsettled, unsteady). (various references) | |
German | unstabil (astable), labil (delicate, disoriented, frail, labile, poor, weak). (various references) | |
Greek | άστατοσ (capricious, fickle, flighty, floater, inconstant, mercurial, tergiversator, uncertain, unsettled, volatile, whiffler), ασταθήσ (choppy, erratic, inconstant, infirm, top heavy, tottering, tottery, unsteady, wabbly), ασταθής (fickle), ανερμάτιστος (unballasted, unbllasted). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא יציב (groggy, inconstant, shaky, spotty, unsettled, unsteady), בלתי יציב (erratic), רופף (flimsy, precarious, ramshackle, rickety, shaky, wonky), רפוף (loose, loosening, weak), "ו" (infirm, migration, unsteady, vagabondage, wandering). (various references) | |
Hungarian | instabil. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bergoncang (be unstable). (various references) | |
Italian | volubile (changeable, fickle, skittish, unsteady, variable, volatile), mobile (cabinet, changeable, floating, furniture, maneuverable, mobile, movable, moving, personal, portable, shifting, sliding), labile (disoriented, fleeting, labile), instabile (changeable, inconstant, mobile, shaky, temperamental, unsteady). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 腰高 (overbearing, unstable wrestling stance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "し か (overbearing, unstable wrestling stance). (various references) | |
Korean | 불안 한 (shaky, unsteady). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ableunstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pouco firme (incompact, infirm, insecure, niddle-noddle, rattletrap, shaky, shifting, tottering, tottery, uncertain, unsafe, unsound, unsteady, unsure, weak-kneed, wobbly, wonky), oscilante (crank, flickering, floating, libratory, oscillatory, pendulous, swinging, vacillating, waggly, wavering, wobbly), instável (ambulatory, astatic, baffling, bumpy, changeable, erratic, fickle, kid-glove, labile, lubricous, mobile, mutable, off-balance, slippery, slippy, temperamental, ticklish, tippy, tottering, unreliable, unsound, unsteady, variable, wayward, wonky), inseguro (brittle, insecure, jumpy, shaky, unreliable, unsafe, unsteady, unsure), inconstante (astatic, capricious, changeable, changeful, desultory, fanciful, fickle, flighty, giddy, impermanent, inconstant, light-minded, mutable, shifting, skittish, uncertain, unequable, unequal, unreliable, unsure, variable, versatile), incerto (borderline, chancy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fitful, floating, hazardous, incalculable, inconstant, insecure, kittle, lubricous, precarious, problematic, questionable, risky, shaky, shifting, slippery, slippy, tottery, touch and go, touch-and-go, unassured, uncertain, undecided, unreliable, unsettled, unsure), abalado (crank, shaken, shook, unsettled). (various references) | |
Romanian | variabil (changeable, choppy, floating, fluctuating, mutable, uncertain, uneven, unsettled, unsteady, variable, variably, variant, varying), nestatornic (changeable, fickle, flyaway, giddy, lubricous, mobile, mutable, ticklish, unfaithful, unreliable, variably, versatile, volatile, wayward), mobil (changeable, detachable, impulse, mobile, motive, movable, moving, personal, removable, working), instabil (broken, catching, easy, groggy, ticklish), şubred (delicate, disorderly, feeble, flimsy, frail, insecure, ramshackle, rocky, shaky, weak). (various references) | |
Russian | неустойчивый (astable, changeable, dicky, erratic, grog, groggy, inconstant, infirm, labile, ramshackle, top heavy, topheavy, unballasted, unequable, unsteady, waggly, wavering, yielding). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nestabilan (unsteady), labilan (labile). (various references) | |
Spanish | inestable (instable, rocky, unsettled, unsteady). (various references) | |
Swedish | ostadig (cranky, fickle, groggy, shaky, uncertain, unsteady, wobbly, wonky). (various references) | |
Turkish | sağlam olmayan (not healthy, unsecured), oynak (coquettish, flirtatious, frisky, frolicsome, loose, ludic, mobile, playful, skittish), kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, erratic, faltering, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), istikrarsız (changeable, changeful, choppy, desultory, fluid, precarious, undecided, unequal, unsteady), güvenilmez (beyond belief, discredited, elusive, elusory, faithless, insecure, irresponsible, precarious, shifty, slippery, suspicious, treacherous, uncertain, unfaithful, unreliable, unsound, unsteady, untrustable, untrustworthy, whacky), dengesiz (astatic, deranged, immoderate, inequable, lop-sided, Moody, non compos, non compos mentis, off one's rocker, out-of-balance, unbalanced, uncompensated, uneven), değişken (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, erratic, factor, fickle, fitful, flexible, flexile, fluid, fluxional, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, inequable, labile, mercurial, mobile, mutable, protean, shifting, sliding, streaked, streaky, swinging, uncertain, unfunded, unsteady, variable, variant, versatile). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сипкий (running), нетвердий (tottering, unsteadfast), непостійний (ambulatory, capricious, changeable, changeful, fickle, flighty, impermanent, instable, mercurial, non-permanent, shifting, unsteady, variant, volatile, voluble, weathercock). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không vững (crank, instable, rocky, unsteady), không kiên định (chameleonic, fickle, instable, mercurial, mutable, seesaw, unsteadfast), không chắc (aleatory, improbable, uncertain, unlikely, unsteady), không bền hay thay đổi, không ổn định (instable). (various references) | |
Welsh | sigledig (rickety, shaky), anwastad (fickle, uneven), anwadal (changeable, fickle), ansefydlog (fickle, unsettled), ansafadwy (fickle), ansad (fickle, unsteady). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | instabile, instabiles, instabilis, instabilitatis. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | ExubrisaV wV udwr mh ekzeshV anebhV gar epi thn koithn tou patroV sou tote emianaV thn strwmnhn ou anebhV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Effusus es sicut aqua non crescas quia ascendisti cubile patris tui et maculasti stratum eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ne grow thow, for thow hast steied up the cowche of thi fader, and thow hast defoulid the bedde of hym. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | As vnstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therfore not be the chefest for thou wenst vp vpo thy fathers bedd and than defyledest thou my couche with goynge vppe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it; he went up to my couch. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Nagabukal ingon sa tubig, dili ikaw mahimong pangulo; Kay misaka ka sa higdaanan sa imong amahan: Unya gihugawan mo kini; gisaka niya ang akong higdaanan sa kaminyoon. |
| Croatian | no, poput vode nabujao, neæeš više imati prvenstva, jer na ležaj oca svog se pope, moj tad oskvrnu krevet. |
| Danish | Du skummer over som Vandet, men du mister din Forret; thi du besteg din Faders Leje.Skændigt handled du da han besteg mit Leje! |
| Dutch | Snelle afloop als der wateren, gij zult de voortreffelijkste niet zijn! want gij hebt uws vaders leger beklommen; toen hebt gij het geschonden; hij heeft mijn bed beklommen! |
| Finnish | Mutta sinä kuohahdat kuin vesi, et pysy ensi sijalla, sillä sinä nousit isäsi leposijalle; silloin sinä sen saastutit. Niin, hän nousi vuoteeseeni. |
| French | Impétueux comme les eaux, tu n`auras pas la prééminence! Car tu es monté sur la couche de ton père, Tu as souillé ma couche en y montant. |
| German | Er fuhr leichtfertig dahin wie Wasser. Du sollst nicht der Oberste sein; denn du bist auf deines Vaters Lager gestiegen, daselbst hast du mein Bett entweiht mit dem Aufsteigen. |
| Haitian Creole | Ou tankou yon larivyè k'ap desann. Men, se pa ou k'ap alatèt, paske ou kouche ak yon madanm papa ou. Ou moute sou kabann mwen, ou fè sa ou pa t' dwe fè. |
| Hungarian | Állhatatlan, mint a víz, nem leszesz elsõ, mivel atyád ágyába léptél fel: akkor megfertõztetted! Nyoszolyámba lépett õ. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Engkau mudah tergoncang seperti air, sehingga bukan yang utama; sebab engkau tidur dengan selirku, kaunodai tempat tidur ayahmu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | bergelembunglah seperti dari air; maka tiada engkau lagi yang terutama, sebab engkau telah menaiki peraduan bapamu, engkau telah menajiskan peraduan nikahku, sebab engkau telah menaikinya. |
| Italian | Bollente come l'acqua, tu non avrai preminenza, perché hai invaso il talamo di tuo padre e hai violato il mio giaciglio su cui eri salito. |
| Maori | He mea pokarekare, ano he wai, e kore koe e kaka; mo tou pikitanga i te moenga o tou papa; pokea iho e koe a reira: i pikitia e ia toku takotoranga. |
| Norwegian | Du bruser over som vannet, du skal intet fortrin ha; for du steg op på din fars leie; da vanhelliget du det - i min seng steg han op! |
| Portuguese | Descomedido como a gua, não reterás a preeminência; porquanto subiste ao leito de teu pai; então o contaminaste. Sim, ele subiu minha cama. |
| Rumanian | Nqvalnic ca apele, -tu nu vei mai avea kntkietatea! Cqci te-ai suit kn patul tatqlui tqu, Mi-ai spurcat patul, suindu-te kn el. |
| Russian | ОП ФЩ 'ХЫЕЧБМ, ЛБЛ ЧП"Б, --ОЕ 'Х"ЕЫШ ТЕЙНХЭЕУФЧПЧБФШ, Й'П ФЩ ЧЪПЫЕМ ОБ МПЦЕ ПФ"Б ФЧПЕЗП, ФЩ ПУЛЧЕТОЙМ ПУФЕМШ НПА, ЧЪПЫЕМ. |
| Spanish | Porque fuiste inestable como el agua, no serás el principal. Porque subiste a la cama de tu padre, y al subir a mi lecho lo profanaste. |
| Swedish | Du sjuder över såsom vatten, du skall icke bliva den främste, ty du besteg din faders läger; då gjorde du vad skändligt var. Ja, min bädd besteg han! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unstable": unstableness, unstablenesses, unstabler, unstablest. (additional references) | |
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"Unstable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unstabled, vnseable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unstable" (pronounced unstā"bul) |
| 6 | -s t ā" b u l | Stabile, stable. |
| 5 | -t ā" b u l | table. |
| 4 | -ā" b u l | able, cable, disable, enable, fable, gable, label, mislabel, relabel, sable, unable. |
| 3 | -b u l | incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indestructible, indispensable, indisputable, indistinguishable, indivisible, indomitable, inedible, ineffable, ineligible, inequitable, inescapable, inevitable, inexcusable, inexhaustible, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflatable, acceptable, accessible, abominable, accountable, achievable, actionable, adaptable, addressable, adjustable, admirable, admissible, adoptable, adorable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amble, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, assemble, attainable, attributable, audible, available, avoidable, babble, Babel, bankable, bauble, bearable, believable, bible, billable, biodegradable, bramble, breakable, bubble, buildable, Bumble, burnable, callable, cannibal, capable, changeable, chargeable, charitable, classifiable, cobble, coble, collapsible, collectible, Combinable, comfortable, commendable, communicable, comparable, compatible, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, constable, consumable, contemptible, contestable, controllable, convertible, copyrightable, corbel, countable, credible, creditable, crucible, crumble, culpable, curable, cymbal, dabble, debatable, deductible, defensible, definable, degradable, delectable, deliverable, demonstrable, dependable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, detectable, determinable, developable, Dibble, digestible, disagreeable, disassemble, discernible, discountable, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, disreputable, dissemble, distinguishable, divisible, doable, double, Drabble, dribble, drinkable, drivable, durable, eatable, edible, electable, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enfeeble, enforceable, enjoyable, ennoble, ensemble, enviable, equable, equitable, erasable, erodible, estimable, exchangeable, excitable, excludable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, exportable, extendable, extendible, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, feeble, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, foible, forcible, foreseeable, forfeitable, forgettable, forgivable, formidable, fumble, fungible, fusible, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, gullible, habitable, hardscrabble, harvestable, herbal, heritable, hobble, hon, honorable, horrible, hospitable, humble, identifiable, ignoble, illegible, imaginable, imitable, immeasurable, immiscible, immobile, immovable, immutable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, imperceptible, impermissible, implacable, implantable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incapable, incomparable, incompatible, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, incredible, soluble, solvable, spendable, squabble, stubble, stumble, submersible, suggestible, suitable, supportable, survivable, susceptible, sustainable, syllable, symbol, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, inflexible, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, injectable, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inscrutable, inseparable, insoluble, insufferable, insupportable, insurmountable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, interruptible, intertribal, intolerable, intractable, invaluable, investable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irrefutable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresistible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, irritable, issuable, jumble, justifiable, kibble, knowledgeable, lamentable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, libel, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, mandible, maneuverable, marble, marketable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, mobile, moldable, movable, mumble, navigable, negligible, negotiable, nibble, nimble, noble, noncallable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, nondurable, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, nonverbal, notable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palatable, palpable, parable, passable, patentable, payable, peaceable, pebble, perceptible, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, portable, possible, potable, practicable, preamble, predictable, preferable, presentable, preventable, printable, probable, profitable, programmable, prosecutable, provable, psychobabble, punishable, questionable, quibble, quotable, rabble, ramble, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, reassemble, rebel, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recordable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, redouble, redoubtable, reducible, refundable, regrettable, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, rentable, repairable, repayable, repeatable, replaceable, reportable, reprehensible, reputable, resealable, resemble, resettable, respectable, responsible, retractable, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, rumble, salable, saleable, salvageable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, shamble, Sibyl, sizable, sizeable, sociable, thimble, timetable, tolerable, traceable, tractable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, treble, tremble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tumble, tunable, turntable, typeable, umbel, unacceptable, unaccountable, unaffordable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbeatable, unbelievable, unbuildable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undesirable, undetectable, unelectable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninhabitable, uninsurable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unpalatable, unpredictable, unprintable, unprofitable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unscramble, unserviceable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstoppable, unsuitable, unsupportable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, valuable, variable, vegetable, venerable, verbal, verifiable, veritable, viable, visible, voluble, vulnerable, wamble, washable, wearable, winnable, wobble, workable. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: abluents. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: abluent, butanes, eluants, nebulas, sublate, sunbelt, tunable, unbelts, unblest. | |
-2 letters: ablest, absent, beauts, bleats, bluest, bluets, blunts, bustle, butane, butles, eluant, latens, lunate, lunets, nebula, salute, stable, suable, sublet, subnet, subtle, sultan, tables, tabuns, unable, unbelt, unseal, unseat, usable. | |
-3 letters: abets, ables, abuse, abuts, antes, aunts, bales, banes, baste, bates, beans, beast, beats. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: subaltern, unstabler. | |
+2 letters: subalterns, subcentral, turntables, unstablest, unsuitable, untestable. | |
+3 letters: bladdernuts, blanquettes, construable, infibulates, inscrutable, obnubilates, outbalances, returnables, roundtables, subinterval, subjacently, subterminal, sustainable, tunableness, unballasted, unstoppable. | |
+4 letters: absoluteness, boastfulness, confabulates, counterblast, discountable, entablatures, equilibrants, habitualness, indisputable, questionable, questionably, somnambulate, subcentrally, subintervals, suitableness, surmountable, transfusable, transfusible, transmutable, tunabilities, undisputable, unlistenable, unmistakable, unstableness, untouchables. | |
+5 letters: battlegrounds, beautifulness, counterblasts, elucubrations, equitableness, immutableness, inexhaustible, inexhaustibly, insalubrities, insupportable, mensurability, nebulizations, neuroblastoma, somnambulated, somnambulates, subadolescent, sublieutenant, subordinately, substanceless, substantively, tablespoonful, tunablenesses, turbellarians, unestablished, unjustifiable, unrespectable, unsupportable, unsustainable. | |
| 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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