Another word for volatile
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Adjective
Following no predictable pattern
- Full of or characterized by whimsy; quaintly, playfully, or gently humorous
- Given to whimsy; capricious; odd; peculiar; playful; light-hearted or amusing.
- Subject to sudden change; unpredictable
- (Biology) Tending to exhibit genetic variation or variation in a physical trait:
- Designating or involving an interest rate, as on a mortgage loan, that varies over time according to some predetermined formula
- Likely to change or vary; subject to variation; changeable.
- Erratic in habits, purpose, or behavior
- Not firm or stable; shaky
- Not even or regular; wavering:
- Unable to be predicted.
- Difficult to foretell or foresee:
- Not definite or determined; vague
- Not determined; undecided:
- Subject to change; variable:
- Very sensitive or easily upset; touchy
- Needing careful handling; precarious; delicate
- Requiring skillful or tactful handling; delicate:
- Subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious; sometimes used figuratively to describe user-unfriendly or unstable machines or software that are either complicated and/or have poorly written instructions and are subsequently difficult to operate.
- Having an excitable temperament; easily upset
- Relating to or caused by temperament:
- Having qualities attributed to the god Mercury or supposedly influenced by the planet Mercury; eloquent, clever, shrewd, thievish, etc.
- Having qualities suggestive of mercury; quick, quick-witted, volatile, changeable, fickle, etc.
- Caused by the action or use of mercury
- Not constant; changeable
- Not uniform in nature, value, etc.; irregular; variable
- Changing or varying, especially often and without discernible pattern or reason.
- Displaying or marked by a lack of consistency, especially:
- Not always holding to the same principles or practice; changeable
- Lacking in correct logical relation; contradictory:
- Changeable or unstable in affection, interest, loyalty, etc.; capricious
- Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious.
- Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable.
- Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
- Strange or fanciful in form, conception, or appearance:
- Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
- (Geol.) Designating a boulder or rock formation transported some distance from its original source, as by a glacier
- Lacking consistency, regularity, or uniformity:
- Having no fixed course or purpose; irregular; random; wandering
- Being such that alteration is possible:
- Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
- That can change or be changed; likely or tending to change; variable; alterable; fickle
- Characterized by, arising from, or subject to caprice; impulsive or unpredictable:
- Characterized by or resulting from caprice, inconsistency in feeling or purpose, a whim, or an unpredictable or impulsive behavior. See also arbitrary.
- Subject to caprices; tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason; erratic; flighty
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Another word for volatile
Modifier
Having the qualities of a gas
Having a sprightly temperament
Liable to sudden change
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