Meaning of अस्थिर in English
- Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.
- Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.
- Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.
- of Flicker
- Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship.
- Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
- Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.
- Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts.
- Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money-making; crafty.
- Of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. See Mercury, 2.
- Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth.
- A person having mercurial qualities.
- A preparation containing mercury.
- Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand.
- Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber.
- Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
- Same as Streaked, 1.
- Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part.
- Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled.
- To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.
- To become unsettled or unfixed; to be disordered.
- Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.
- Leathery.
- Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow.
- Capable of being averted; preventable.
- That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose.
- A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.
- Composed of threads.
- Of or pertaining to the flocculus.
- of Flocculate
- The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.
- Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
- Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.
- Moving like a wave; wavering
- showing undulation or fluctuation; as, a fluctuant tumor.
- Floating on the waves.
- Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.
- Not elastic.
- Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant.
- Having indistinct spots, paler at their margins.
- Spotted, as if from abrasions of the surface.
- Capable of being shown; proper or intended to be shown.
- Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed; apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible reason, motive, or aim.
- Ostentatious.
- Payable.
- Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail.
- Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf.
- Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
- of Snaffle
- Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spathal.
- of Stutter
- Of or pertaining to transposition; involving transposition.
- Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.
- To free from ballast; to discharge ballast from.
- Not ballasted.
- To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.
- To twist about, as if boneless.
- A wandering or strolling.
- Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose.
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