volatile: 不稳定的; easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
1) evaporating easily; explosive, changeable
2) 1. a. tending to vary often or widely, as in price
b. inconstant; fickle
c. lighthearted; flighty
d. ephemeral; fleeting
2. tending to violence; explosive
3) changeable; explosive; evaporation rapidly
4) readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fick; explosive
5) easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
* n. volatility
instable : volatility :: harmonious : congruence
craven : heroic :: volatile : constant (OPPOSITE)
volatile : temper :: ready : wit
volatile : evaporate :: soluble : dissolve
volatile <> constant, stable
imperturbability ↔ volatility
Fearing the substitute teacher’s volatile temper, the children were quiet and obedient.
Syn: volatility, gaseous; capricious, unstable,capricious, erratic, fickle, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, temperamental
His volatile personality made it difficult to predict his reaction to anything.
多变的: characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change
【例】a boss of volatile moods 一个性情多变的老板‖The stock market can be very volatile. 股 市瞬息万变。
【近】 capricious, changeable, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, skittish, temperamental, variable, versatile
【反】 certain, changeless, constant, immutable, invariable, settled, stable, stationary, steady, unchangeable, unvarying 固定的,不变的
【派】 volatility n. 易变性,易挥发性
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