instable
not stable; unstable.
Origin of instable
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How to use instable in a sentence
Skill was slowly obtained, and success, though integrity and independence must be given for it, dubious and instable.
Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist | Charles Brockden BrownThe idea of justice, since it is subject, to the variations of sensibility, is of the most instable sort.
Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas | Remy de GourmontThe day was dying, and the instable, impossible love was dying, too.
The Shadow of Life | Anne Douglas SedgwickThe resultant situation, being profoundly unsatisfactory, would also be instable.
Essays in Radical Empiricism | William JamesBut not many days passed before the instable people discovered how great a loss he was to them.
Naples Past and Present | Arthur H. Norway
British Dictionary definitions for instable
/ (ɪnˈsteɪbəl) /
a less common word for unstable
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