Noun

• S: (n) volatile (a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor) "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"

Adjective

• S: (adj) volatile (evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures) "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents"
• S: (adj) explosive, volatile (liable to lead to sudden change or violence) "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"
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• S: (adj) unstable (lacking stability or fixity or firmness) "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"
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• S: (adj) fickle, volatile (marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments) "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"
• S: (adj) volatile (tending to vary often or widely) "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions"
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• S: (adj) changeable, changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change) "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices"
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• S: (adj) adjustable (capable of being regulated) "adjustable interest rates"
• S: (adj) astatic (not static or stable)
• S: (adj) checkered (marked by changeable fortune) "a checkered business career"
• S: (adj) distortable (capable of having the meaning altered or twisted) "our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature"
• S: (adj) erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver (liable to sudden unpredictable change) "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
• S: (adj) fluid, unstable (subject to change; variable) "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup"
• S: (adj) fluid, mobile (affording change (especially in social status)) "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile"
• S: (adj) jittering (undergoing small rapid variations)
• S: (adj) kaleidoscopic, kaleidoscopical (continually shifting or rapidly changing)
• S: (adj) mobile (capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another) "a highly mobile face"
• S: (adj) mutable (tending to undergo genetic mutuation) "It is likely, too, that the chromosomes of all eubacteria are as mutable as that of E. coli"
• S: (adj) open-ended (allowing for future changes or revisions) "open-ended agreements"
• S: (adj) quick-change (adept at changing from one thing to another especially changing costumes) "a quick-change artist"
• S: (adj) quick-drying (of a liquid substance that dries quickly)
• S: (adj) reversible (capable of assuming or producing either of two states) "a reversible chemical reaction"; "a reversible cell"
• S: (adj) volatile (tending to vary often or widely) "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions"
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